A Line in the River by Jamal Mahjoub
Jamal Mahjoub’s A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory is a dense, multi-disciplinary work that blends personal memoir, travelogue, and a forensic political history of Sudan. Writing from the perspective of an “in-betweener” the son of a Sudanese father and a British mother Mahjoub uses his return to Khartoum between 2008 and 2012 …