The Keys of Babylon

Overview

A collection of linked stories, this book provides voices to the migrants around the globe and explores their lives as they interact with others and experience a mix of hope, success, failure, fear, indifference, and passion. Both a fictional record and an investigation of immigration and migration in the 20th and 21st centuries, this narrative journeys as far as Albania, China, Mexico, Iraq, Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Author Biography

Robert Minhinnick is the recipient of two of UK’s Forward Prizes and two Wales Book of the Year awards for his collections of essays To Babel and Back and Watching the Fire Eater. His first novel, Sea Holly, was also short-listed for the Ondaatje Prize.