In his debut novel Wimmy Road Boyz, Sufiyaan Salam takes the oft-repeated (and frankly, Anglocentric) dictum “show, don’t tell” to its most creative conclusion: crafting prose that not only narrates a story but is also self-reflexive about the very act of narration itself. Review of The People’s Sanctum by Manuraj ShunmugasundaramThe Manchester-based author writes in a multilingual, conversational mode that mirrors the internal and external linguistic landscape inhabited by his British Pakistani characters. The story opens with the introduction of 22-year-old Immy, described as “something of a bad-boy muslim slut who don’t never text back”. He is meeting up with 23-year-old Khan, a “cambridge-educated paki… the type to recite Warren Buffet...
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