Standing on Shamsan

Garry Kilworth

280 pages · ISBN 9780246138958

Synopsis

Brought up in the Aden of the 1950s, Cass learns to absorb the ways of the Arab people. But when he returns in 1966 he is the enemy: a British soldier sent to quell the unrest caused by the British withdrawal. How can he fight for the land of his forebears against the friends of his childhood?