Killing and Dying

An old woman returns alone to the spot where as a young girl she used to meet her lover on his daily lunch break. An unsuspecting couple find themselves drawn to a window to watch the neighbours’ kinky play turn into something more sinister. Twin teenage sisters make an awkward pilgrimage with their ageing-hippie father. […]

‘With the intimacy of a person who has lived the tragedy himself but with the restraint of a true artist, Hamid Sulaiman tells a powerful tale of Syria’s descent into cataclysm while reminding us of those still tending the seeds of the revolutionary spring.’ Joe Sacco Winner of the 2017 PEN Translates Award Winner of […]

Picking up from his earlier collection Sleepwalk, and the precursor to his award-winning Shortcomings, the four stories in Summer Blonde are quintessential Tomine. Memorably featuring characters such as Neil, Carlo and Hillary Chan, among others, these are beautiful and haunting tales that illustrate with great sympathy the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life.

Daria flyttar till Sverige och behöver starta om sitt liv, hon börjar med att söka arbete och får svartanställning som servitris på en av Malmös krogar, snart upptäcker hon att inget fungerar som det borde. Det är där allt börjar. Tillsammans med en journalist och fackförbundet börjar hon en hemlig utredning av anställningsformerna på hennes […]