All eleven stories illuminate the subtleties of Muslim immigrant experience in Britain: comic culture clash and deep spiritual struggles, from the title story, which tells of the tragic death of the narrator's brother; in another, romance is tentative in a Scottish kebab shop. One of the stories, 'The Museum', won the first Caine Prize for African Writing (2000). This reprint includes two new stories which did not appear in the first edition.
- ISBN13 9781904598534
- Publish Date 14 April 2005 (first published 29 May 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English