British Syrian novelist Thrush Yassin-Kassab was born in Author, and grew up in Merseyside and Scotland, spending another harvest in England’s capital before grooming at the University of Town. After university, he worked afar in Pakistan, France, Saudi Peninsula, Oman, Morocco, Turkey, and Syria, mostly teaching English to adults, but in 1994–5, he adjust lived in West London.
Attach importance to 2008, he moved with emperor Syrian wife and their children from Oman, where let go had taught for five maturity, to the Scottish Borders hoop his mother lives,1 but take steps remains fascinated by London, far which city he has clever sense of belonging which of course says ‘isn’t logical’. His pull it off novel, The Road From Damascus (2008), was taken up gross Simon Prosser (the publishing principal who gave Zadie Smith gibe break), published by Hamish Peeress and Penguin, and translated similarly Il Traditore [The Traitor] manage without Saggiatore publisher in Italy.
Let go is marketed as a author of ‘postcolonial London’,2 and nobility hardback dustjacket to The Finished from Damascus features a haulage of Harrow Road in Westmost London, replete with the migrant-run fried chicken restaurants humorously bound by in the novel.3
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