burning mirror
an inroduction

The Burning Mirror is a mixture of the seamy and the spiritual, the subtle, the baroque and the brutal. The canvas is broad: everything from Glaswegian Asian gangsta stories to themes drawn from various Trans-Mediterranean cultures, from the philosophising of a spirit trapped in a bottle to the everyday tribulations of a Catholic Evangelist, from a searing portrayal of brick-making villages in Pakistan to a Pointillist love story set amidst the late Twentieth Century Balkan Wars.

A young man's search, across the Himalayan peaks, for an incarnation of mystical love; a cycle of Celtic stories, stretching across decades; Lata Mangeshkar and the night river in a Govan kebab house; lovers murdering their rivals …

With consummate skill and intense physicality, Saadi experiments with form as well as content, and with the medium, itself. Words dance across the page in a dialectic of the imagination. A talented new voice in European fiction.

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