000			01444nam a22001577a 4500
020			_a9781854115508
041			_aENG
082			_a823 _bMIN
100			_a Minhinnick Robert
245			_aThe keys of babylon / _cRobert Minhinnick
260			_aBridgend, Wales : _b Poetry Wales Press, _c2011.
300			_a292 pages ; _c21 cm.
520			_aAuthor shortlisted for the GBP30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award 2012. In Albania, Mexico, China, Iraq, Israel, Wales, the US, London... people are on the move. Migration and immigration are key issues of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The Keys of Babylon is a collection of 15 linked stories by award-winning poet and author Robert Minhinnick, giving voices to migrants around the globe. These stories of migration reflect a comprehensive mix of hope, success, failure, fear, indifference and passion. Finally, the stories of each of the main characters come together in the closing narrative, surveying their circumstances on one particular day. Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952, and now lives in Porthcawl, south Wales. He has twice won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem, as well as the Wales Book of the Year Award in 1993 and 2006 for his collections of essays Watching the Fire Eater (Seren, 1995) and To Babel and Back (Seren, 2005). His first novel, Sea Holly (Seren, 2007), was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
650			_aEnglish fiction
942			_2ddc _cBK
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