Radha Narayan — The Monarch Review

The Gulf – Radha Narayan

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 13:02 — 3 Comments

Long hot days permeated by the scent of petrol and rubber, and longer nights distended by the desert silence, have carried Abdul Ghassan from his thirtieth to his sixtieth birthday without his being aware of it. He wakes at dawn when salaah sounds at the mosque, performs his ablutions at the common facilities, and returns to his portable cabin to pray. Each trailer in the work-yard is partitioned to house two men, and Abdul Ghassan’s home is little more than a berth with a bedside table. There is just enough room on the floor to pray, and these days it […]