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THE TIME OF OUR LIVES
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2014
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6 editions
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A Celebration of Flames
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The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs
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2006
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3 editions
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Bra Frooks...
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2006
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Sadness in the House of Love
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2015
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The Gathering of the Storm
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2016
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Weapons of Words
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The Paanies Are Coming
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2017
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2 editions
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I Dream in Long Sentences
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2015
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2 editions
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IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
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2017
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§ THE GATHERING OF THE STORM § (novel) Farouk Asvat
"If the way to create
is the way to kill,
I have hoarded enough blood
in my throat
for all the hyenas to suck from."
[] Shiv K Kumar
contents:
Before The Deluge
The Victim
An Affair With The Sky's The Limit
[] The Gathering Of The Storm is a continuation of Siddique's odyssey in Sadness In The House Of Love. The volume consists of three novellas: Before The Deluge, set amidst the growing violence and humidity of a subtropical coastal city; The Victim, portrays the increasing racist violence in a coastal small town; and An Affair With The Sky's The Limit, is Siddique's continuing quest for love and freedom in an oppressive society.
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[] please check out my blogs @:
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weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
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§ I DREAM IN LONG SENTENCES § 
* THE LATEST COLLECTION OF POEMS by FAROUK ASVAT *
Winner of the Vita Award for his anthology
A Celebration Of Flames
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"A Celebration Of Flames is a powerful, impassioned call. The sanity and courage of this collection arises from the poet's unique experiential perceptions of his milieu, making him one of the few who can write about these traumatic times with such lucidity and lyricism. The strength of Farouk Asvat's poetry lies in the way he intertwines the complex elements of social and political conflicts with intense personal relationships. The wide tonal range extends from sensual and delicate insights into the nature of passion to the satiric and humorous use of slang."
Vita Award citation
"Like hesitating snowflakes ... his words are fascinating in their capricious wilfulness ... like unexpected strokes of a whip."
Susanne Baackmann, University Of Albuquerque
"The legend of poet extraordinaire Farouk Asvat: ... like vintage wine, proper poetry matures with time, and like vintage art the voice and wisdom of a poet worth the name is timeless."
Mphutlane wa Bofelo, kagablog
"His love poetry soars with an intense sensitivity, it celebrates lyrically the joys of a most exquisite sensuousness."
Marcia Leveson, University Of The Witwatersrand
"Farouk Asvat … writes about love and suffering, about individualism, snobbishness, pretence and pride, about human and environmental beauty and about opposing oppression, and who deploys metaphysical, lyrical and colloquial language, slang and standard diction, all with equal strength and ease."
Cosmo Pieterse, Culture In Another South Africa
"Since he has been in the line of fire as both a victim of Apartheid and as a political voice in the struggle for liberation, his evocation of the contemporary South African battlefield and his testimony of the humiliation, isolation, deprivation, degradation and murder, the collective weapons of Apartheid, are chillingly authentic."
Herbert Steyn, English Olympiad, King Edward VII School.
a piquant publication now available
on amazon paperback & kindle
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[] contents:
My Heart Is Soaked In Sorrow
The Autumnal Sounds Of The Viola
Birds!
American Choices
Oh Mother!
No God Came Here To Rock 'N' Roll
Whoever Brought Me Here
Will Have To Take Me Home
The Zionist Wall
I Dream In Long Sentences
SADNESS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE : FAROUK ASVAT (novel)
The blossoming love between Siddique and Wasiela in the midst of an uprising against the cruel regime is set against the bleakness and the beauty of the peninsula - the myriad characters reacting with humour and courage to the turmoil surrounding them.
Against the backdrop of the ever-present mountain and the persistent south-easter, the novel is a portrait of a cosmopolitan city isolated from the world, of a happy-go-lucky community caught up in the throes of a revolt against oppression, of an extended family responding to the new challenges facing them, of the slowly developing love between the two protagonists getting entangled in the maelstrom - with devastating consequences.
contents:
The Family Of Many Children In The Motherless Mother City
Days And Nights Full Of Fire And Love
Sadness In The House Of Love
A Whirlwind Of Ashes
SADNESS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE
1. The Family Of Many Children In The Motherless Mother City
"They chase shadows," Fahdila said with measured contempt.
Only Siddique, dreaming of the treacherous Atlantic eyes of Wasiela - the fairest virgin of the Cape - heard her. He looked at Fahdila's alabaster features across the supper table ... and said nothing. Her voice reverberated in his skull, flying among the colourful discord of budgies flying around in the rarefied air of the lounge, hovering about in the excited atmosphere of cousins and aunts gathered for the evening.
From then on boisterous laughter took over, a carnival of delights in the festive atmosphere: …
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Sadness In The House Of Love: the first NOVEL by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $17.50 & kindle @ only $5
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the anthology The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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the anthology A Celebration Of Flames by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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the anthology The Time Of Our Lives by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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the anthology Bra Frooks … by Farouk Asvat is now available
on amazon: paperback @ $10 & kindle @ only $5
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farouk asvat can be contacted at: farouk.asvat@gmail.com
[] please check out my blogs @:
farouk asvat - poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
[] also link up on:
google+ : https://plus.google.com/1163032325430...
linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/farouk-asvat/42/...
twitter: www.twitter.com/faroukasvat
facebook: www.facebook.com/faroukasvat
amazon kindle author @ www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat
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A CELEBRATION OF FLAMES : Farouk Asvat (winner of the Vita Award)
"Like hesitating snowflakes ... his words are fascinating in their capricious wilfulness ... like unexpected strokes of a whip."
Susanne Baackmann, University Of Albuquerque, USA
"A Celebration Of Flames is a powerful, impassioned call. The sanity and courage of this collection arises from the poet's unique experiential perceptions of his milieu, making him one of the few who can write about these traumatic times with such lucidity and lyricism. The strength of Farouk Asvat's poetry lies in the way he intertwines the complex elements of social and political conflicts with intense personal relationships. The wide tonal range extends from sensual and delicate insights into the nature of passion to the satiric and humorous use of slang."
Vita Award citation
"Farouk Asvat … writes about love and suffering, about individualism, snobbishness, pretence and pride, about human and environmental beauty and about opposing oppression, and who deploys metaphysical, lyrical and colloquial language, slang and standard diction, all with equal strength and ease."
Cosmo Pieterse, Culture In Another South Africa
"Since he has been in the line of fire as both a victim of Apartheid and as a political voice in the struggle for liberation, his evocation of the contemporary South African battlefield and his testimony of the humiliation, isolation, deprivation, degradation and murder, the collective weapons of Apartheid, are chillingly authentic."
Herbert Steyn, English Olympiad, King Edward VII School.
"A Celebration of Flames (is) a powerful, impassioned call. I admire the sanity and courage of this. Your position and perception make you one of the few who can write on this subject without obscenity."
Lionel Abrahams, editor Purple Renoster & Sesame
"The legend of poet extraordinaire Farouk Asvat: ... like vintage wine, proper poetry matures with time, and like vintage art the voice and wisdom of a poet worth the name is timeless."
Mphutlane wa Bofelo, kagablog
"His love poetry soars with an intense sensitivity, it celebrates lyrically the joys of a most exquisite sensuousness."
Marcia Leveson, University of the Witwatersrand, The Indicator
"... you almost catch your breath at some of the stanzas ... you can re-read it several times and be struck by new ideas, metaphors, elegiac surprises, and the heartfelt poignancy ..."
Aggrey Klaaste, editor Sowetan
"Out of an angry silence, a polished poet is born."
Anton Harber, editor Weekly Mail
"Farouk Asvat's award-winning collection of poems crackles with a passionate consuming pace ..."
Z B Molefe, arts editor City Press
"This anthology contains some of the finest political poems published in the past two decades ...."
Heather Mackie, Business Day
"A Celebration of Flames" has hit the local best-sellers list - a rare feat for a volume of poetry."
Ameen Akhalwaya, editor The Indicator
"... a love imagery entwined with pain, blood and violence ..."
Josefa Salmón, Loyola University, USA
"A common feature of the volume is the mingling of internal and external reality into internal psychological disturbance."
Duncan Brown, English Academy Review
"... one of the best poets in the country ..."
Gomolemo Mokae, The Star Tonight
"... Farouk Asvat regards the honed word as a means of interrogating the slogans and dreams of the revolution."
Michael Chapman, Southern African Review
" ... carries conviction and conveys a mounting tension which can be glancingly lyrical and simultaneously politically authoritative."
Peter Wilhelm, Financial Mail
"Asvat's distrust of rhetorical formulas produces a language that is capable of interrogating the dreams and slogans of the revolution."
Julia Martin, Upstream
"... ringing celebrations and criticisms of recent political events ... this collection is an important addition to South African poetry."
Francis Faller, Johannesburg College of Education, Tribute
"Farouk Asvat's incisive understanding of human nature and ... evocative description of South African lifestyle under the draconian laws of apartheid."
Lenasia Times
"... (his) poems mirror deep sorrow, passion and the pain of love. Yet others glint with a quicksilver humour and are effectively salted with the slang of street-talk."
Neill Darke, Weekend Argus
"... they possess considerable power ... Effective imagery abounds."
Elspeth Johnson, Daily Dispatch
"A Celebration of Flames by Farouk Asvat addresses the intercommunal atrocities that occurred."
Priya Narismulu,
Journal Of Language And Popular Culture In Africa
"Poetry is not viewed primarily as an art form, but rather as the vital expression of a people struggling to voice its soul ..."
Phyllis Bischof, The Journal Of Academic Librarianship,
University of California, Berkeley
"He conveys a vivid sense of the country's agony, of the brutalization of all those involved in political conflict."
Amrit Manga`, New Nation
"Here is the poetry which in its very contradictions explores accurately the emotional terrain and tensions of life in the townships today."
Kelwyn Sole, University Of Cape Town, Staffrider
"... one of the most prolific - and controversial - South African poets "
Jon Qwelane, editor Sunday Star
"A Celebration of Flames is so near to the bone, so full of despair and sanity. There is such gentleness and sadness in the love poetry ..."
Debbie Arends, University Of Witwatersrand
"Asvat ... explores ... the turbulence and fragility of life under apartheid and the sustaining power of love in these times."
Andrew Martin, National English Literary Museum News
My anthologies of poetry:
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs
A Celebration Of Flames
The Time Of Our Lives &
Bra Frooks …
are all available on amazon:
paperback @ $10.00 & kindle @ only $5 each.
www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat
© Farouk Asvat
Authentic literature is the bloodbeat of contemporary society.
It transmits the pains and laughter of the writer's environment.
It alerts against violations of the Truth.
Literature does not develop in a void.
It is a transformation of the reality into an artform,
utilizing the dialects of the time;
getting its shape, direction and field of concern
from the social, political and economic forces
that interact in a particular society.
The creative writer is the conscience of the people,
the interpreter of his society. …
{} contents:
WEAPONS OF WORDS
Weapons of Words
Creativity and Development:
a critical look at black south african literature
in the context of third world and world fiction
The Sad Splendour of Latin American Literature
Modern Arab Literature a clash of cultures
Jorge Luis Borges: the forking paths of the labyrinths
The Power of Words (an interview)
Black South African Writing: a critical appraisal
I Say
THE JOYS OF LITERATURE
100 Best Books of Fiction
100 Best Books of 20th Century Fiction
10 Best Books of Fiction
10 Best Books of Short Fiction
Best First Lines of Fiction
100 Best Books of Non-Fiction
50 Best Books Of 20th Century Non-Fiction
10 Best Books of Non-Fiction
Senior High School Reading List
Junior High School Reading List
Primary School Reading List
Classics Illustrated
{} Books by Farouk Asvat:
Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
The Gathering Of The Storm (novellas)
I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
Bra Frooks … (poetry)
Weapons of Words (literary essays)
ALL now available on amazon: in paperback & on kindle :
@ www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat
[] please check out my blogs @:
poems: www.faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
weapons of words: www.faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
piquante: www.faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
piqued: www.faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com
books by farouk asvat: www.faroukasvat-books.blogspot.com
[] also link up on:
google+: www.google.com/+faroukAsvat
linkedin: www.linkedin.com/farouk-asvat
facebook: www.facebook.com/faroukasvat
youtube: www.youtube.com/c/faroukAsvat
twitter: www.twitter.com/faroukasvat
amazon kindle author @ www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat
farouk.asvat@gmail.com