title: Infidels: A Novel
author: Abdellah Taa
description: "Taa sharply etches the anguish and ecstasy of his characters. He is adept at depicting love for others as well as love for God, alongside humanitys capacity for great cruelty. This is an undeniably powerful work. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br />"These linked stories combine a lightness of touch, a deep lyricism, an openness to beauty and mystery, with an undercurrent of daring, fierce, erotic energy and images of shocking brutality and challenging complexity.<i>Infidels</i>manages to create a picture of an entire world as well as tender portraits of the individuals whose lives are so memorably dramatized here."<br />Colm Toibin<br /><br />"Abdellah Taa is one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature. He writes about Morocco and Arab culture with both intimacy and the sharp perspective of someone rejected by his home.<i>Infidels</i>is among his best novels and depicts a powerful story of mother and son, both at odds with convention. With each novel Taa grows as an artist and expands our knowledge of what it means to be an outsider inside the Muslim world."<br />David Ebershoff, author of<i>The Danish Girl</i>and<i>The 19th Wife<br /><br /></i>"This novel by a Moroccan writer resident in France recounts the brutal life of a young gay Muslim who becomes a jihadi. Brought up by a prostitute in a conservative milieu in Morocco, the boy takes up with an older, European-born Islamic militant and moves to Belgium. Against the charged backdrop of debates about homosexualitys place in Islam and Islams place in the West, the novels chief success is its dramatization of the hypocrisies of the pious. Addressing his mother, Taas protagonist prophesies, Maman, one day youll be stoned to death by the very same people who creep to the house each night to ask for your forgiveness and a bit of pleasure. --<i>The New Yorker<br /></i>
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  THE SULLA CONSPIRACY
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  by Keith Stevens
  
  
    
  
  
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  Copyright Statement
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  The Sulla Conspiracy
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright © Keith Stevens and Trevor Amos 2018
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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  Synopsis
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Marcus Sulla has been deserted by the gods, his trading ships sunk and his
  fortune dented. He vows to take revenge on the priests who took