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Shadow Language
An American woman who has never left Nashville searches Turkey for a deported Kurdish man who has disappeared. A darkly comic journey through a land where a language is illegal, history is drowned and illusions have to die if you want to survive. Shadow Language received its world premiere at Theatre503, London in February 2008.
96 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2008
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About the author
Stuart Kelly
15 books20 followersStuart Kelly is literary editor at Scotland on Sunday and a freelance critic and writer. He was raised in the Scottish Borders and studied English at Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree and a Master of Studies.
His works include The Book of Lost Books: an Incomplete Guide to All the Books You'll Never Read (2005), Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (2010), which was longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Minister and the Murderer (2018).
Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. In 2016/17 he was president of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
His works include The Book of Lost Books: an Incomplete Guide to All the Books You'll Never Read (2005), Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (2010), which was longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Minister and the Murderer (2018).
Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. In 2016/17 he was president of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
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