IN TRUTH, MADNESS BY IMRAN KHAN
12th of October
Genre: Magical Realism
Publisher: Unbound Digital
BACK OF THE BOOK
The perfect read for Neil Gaiman fans.
Meet Malek Khalil, a brilliant reporter with decades of experience in the field, and a man on the edge. Where there is war, natural disaster or political crisis, Malek is in the midst of it, but years of conflict reporting have taken their toll and he is slowly unravelling.
His colleagues, Neeka and Justin, have noticed a change in him, beyond even his usual vivid imagination. Neeka is especially sensitive, having been his friend and producer for many years, and perhaps knowing him better than he knows himself. Justin, a skilled and brave cameraman, has worked with them for just as long and the three make a formidable team – but they are only as strong as each other – and Malek is fast going down the rabbit hole.
Born a Muslim but an atheist to his core, Malek’s voyage takes him around the world and back in time to ancient Babylon, as he finds himself arguing with a God in whom he does not believe. A keen reader, his ‘madness’ is heightened by a strange book that keeps appearing on his Kindle, telling the stories of people he has briefly encountered during his career.
In Truth, Madness takes place in the Middle East, South Asia and London against a backdrop of war, religion, political skullduggery and emerging love, taking the reader on a tumultuous journey through the most dangerous arenas of modern culture and the ancient world.
Is Malek losing his mind, or is he experiencing an astonishing kind of truth?
AUTHOR BIO
Having kickstarted his career in the heady world of 1990s independent magazine publishing with work on Dazed and Confused, and launching seminal style title 2nd Generation, Imran Khan jumped into the mainstream with BBC London – hosting radio shows on popular culture, arts and news as the millennium approached. In 2001 he produced a series of short documentaries for BBC Newsnight, Britain’s leading current affairs programme. His work was noticed in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks and Channel 4 commissioned the award-winning film “The Hidden Jihad”, which he wrote and presented. Imran subsequently moved full-time into TV news, working as a BBC producer and correspondent reporting from Lebanon, London and Qatar, with freelance stints in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He became a correspondent for Al Jazeera English in 2005 and is known for his extensive reporting from Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Libya and Ukraine, as well covering the Arab Spring and the conflict in Syria. Increasingly, Imran reports on climate change as the world finally wakes up to the issue. He continues to work as a correspondent for Al Jazeera English, dividing his time between the Middle East, South Asia and London
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