The Silent Minaret - Ishtiyaq Shukri

London, the summer of 2003. Issa Shamsuddin, a South African history student living in Finsbury Park, vanishes without a trace. Did Issa decide to disappear, or was he 'disappeared'? Issa's friend Katinka, his adopted brother Kagiso, mother Dr Vasinthe Kumar and London neighbour Frances reconstruct their memories of the missing man, looking for clues in the past that might explain the riddle of the present. Could the answer about Issa's whereabouts lie in the events that took place in the Western Cape before South Africa's democratic elections as a political activist or in the culmination of his increased alienation and radicalisation whilst researching Islam in London in the last two years? Issa's refrain, after all, was - "The past is always with us". So where can Issa Shamsuddin be?

ISBN: 9781770092495

Pages: 695

Trade paperback

Harper Perennial, 2009

Good condition; small creases at corners

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