14 March 2015

SADNESS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE

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§ SADNESS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE : FAROUK ASVAT §
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§ 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
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§ SADNESS IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE © Farouk Asvat

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:

composed: 1980 to 2015 [cape town & johannesburg, south africa under apartheid]
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (literary criticism)

♦ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
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No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing, photocopying, or via any computerised means or media, including the internet.  This publication shall also not be stored in a retrieval system.  And the writing shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published 
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[] sadness in the house of love:
kindle (2015):    asin # BOOTQ55CCQ
amazon (2015): isbn-10 # 1508401357
                           isbn-13 # 978-1508401353
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06 March 2015

THE WIND STILL SINGS SAD SONGS

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§ THE WIND STILL SINGS SAD SONGS : FAROUK ASVAT §
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"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

"a guided tour of the souls of the South Africans he writes about and cares about. 
 Hauntingly universal ..."
     ● Thomas Rome, New York

"... they are very powerful literary missiles: ... capable of the most beguiling love poetry,  
 as can be seen in "Love Devours Me" ''.
     ● Asha Naidoo, Legal Resources Centre, at book launch

"The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs ... is an important addition to any discerning reader's literary collection."
     ● Victor Metsoamere, Sowetan

"Currently reading a book of incredible poems by @faroukasvat called ''the Wind Still Sings Sad Songs'.  
 The title poem brought me to tears."
    ● Léonicka; DynamicAfrica; et al on twitter
[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (literary criticism)

♦ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
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[] please join me on:

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© farouk asvat.  All rights reserved.
Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing, photocopying, or via any computerised means or media, including the internet.  This publication shall also not be stored in a retrieval system.  And the writing shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published,
without the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.
Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
[] the wind still sings sad songs:
piquant publications (2006): isbn-10 # 1920151028
piquant publications (2006): isbn-13 # 9781920151027
kindle (2014):   asin # BOOLFYOAZO
amazon (2014): isbn-10 # 1500968366
                           isbn-13 # 978-1500968366
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the NOVEL Sadness In The House Of Love by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: in paperback @ $15 & kindle @ only $5
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05 March 2015

A CELEBRATION OF FLAMES

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§ A CELEBRATION OF FLAMES : FAROUK ASVAT § 
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                              § Winner Of The Vita Award §
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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, USA

"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

""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

"... 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

" ... 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

"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

"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

"... Farouk Asvat regards the honed word as a means of interrogating the slogans and dreams of the revolution."
     ● Michael Chapman, Southern African Review

""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

"... 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

"... a love imagery entwined with pain, blood and violence ..."
     ● Josefa Salmón, Loyola University, USA

"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, USA

"He conveys a vivid sense of the country's agony, of the brutalization of all those involved in political conflict."
     ● Amrit Manga`, New Nation

"... (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

"A common feature of the volume is the mingling of internal and external reality into internal psychological disturbance."
     ● Duncan Brown, English Academy Review

"Farouk Asvat's incisive understanding of human nature and ... evocative description of South African lifestyle under the draconian laws of apartheid."
     ● Lenasia Times

"... one of the best poets in the country ..."
     ● Gomolemo Mokae, The Star Tonight

"This anthology contains some of the finest political poems published in the past two decades ...."
     ● Heather Mackie, Business Day

"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

     ● Ameen Akhalwaya, editor The Indicator
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (literary criticism)

¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
__________________________________________________________________________________
[] please check out my blogs @:


[] please join me on:

__________________________________________________________________________________
© farouk asvat.  All rights reserved.
Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing, photocopying, or via any computerised means or media, including the internet.  This publication shall also not be stored in a retrieval system.  And the writing shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published,
without the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.
Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
__________________________________________________________________________________
[] a celebration of flames:
donker (1987): isbn-10 # 0868521442
donker (1987): isbn-13 # 9780868521442
piquant publications (2007): isbn-10 # 1920151044
piquant publications (2007): isbn-13 # 9781920151058
kindle (2014):    asin # BOOK077AHK
amazon (2014): isbn-10 # 1500956724
                           isbn-13 # 978-1500956721
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the NOVEL Sadness In The House Of Love by Farouk Asvat
is now available on amazon: in paperback @ $15 & kindle @ only $5
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04 March 2015

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES

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§ THE TIME OF OUR LIVES : FAROUK ASVAT § 
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"The Time of Our Lives reveals a writer who enjoys words:
 he has a sense of rhythm close to TS Eliot and an eye for the modern image."
     ● Brian Rose, Rand Daily Mail

"It bears testimony to the resilience and courage of the oppressed in South Africa ...
 His poetry is devastatingly forthright and hard-hitting.''     
     ● Tyrone August, The Star

"Asvat's imagery is stark ... his poems taut encapsulations of the injustices wreaked on Black people."         ● Asha Rambally, The Graphic

"Asvat's poem (‘Possibilities for a Man Hunted by SBs’) is a clear and simple statement of the true state of affairs ... reducible to mathematical terms."
     ● Mbulelo Mzamane, Perspectives On South African English Literature

"Asvat's poems ... with many depths, clever twists and juxtapositions, are exciting, true, and thought-provoking."
     ● Wendy Vogt & Alan James, Upstream

"... an almost palpable tenderness for a country whom the poet alludes to as if she were a lover."
     ● Neela Alvarez-Pereyre, Commonwealth Essays & Studies

     ● The Time Of Our Lives is the historically important anthology whose poems played such a pivotal role in the struggle against the height of oppression in South Africa.  This completely revised edition includes several poems that were not in the original collection, and the organisation of the poems into a more coherent order.  The Time Of Our Lives accurately portrays what it was like to live and fight, love and die under the discrimination and tyranny of apartheid.
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (literary criticism)

¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
@ https://www.amazon.com/author/faroukasvat
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[] please check out my blogs @:

https://faroukasvat-poems.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-viewpoint.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-piquant.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-piqued.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-lingo.blogspot.com
https://quran-faroukasvat.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-quran.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-verse.blogspot.com
https://faroukasvat-notes.blogspot.com
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© farouk asvat.  All rights reserved.
Farouk Asvat asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means whatsoever, or transmitted in any form or any means whatsoever, mechanical or electronic, including recording, printing, photocopying, or via any computerised means or media, including the internet.  This publication shall also not be stored in a retrieval system.  And the writing shall not be sold, lent, hired, resold or circulated in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published,
without the prior permission of the author in writing.
Permission to publish or reproduce the writings in any format can be obtained from the author.
Reproduction of this work without permission, except for scholarly & nonprofit purposes,
is liable to a payment of 10, 000 ren men bi or US$ 1,500.
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[] the time of our lives:
black thoughts publications (1982): isbn-10 # 0620063939
black thoughts publications (1982): isbn-13 # 9780620063937
piquant publications (2007): isbn-10 # 1920151044
piquant publications (2007): isbn-13 # 9781920151041
kindle (2014):    asin # BOOK2E9SSO
amazon (2014): isbn-10 # 15008853
                           isbn-13 # 978-1500885311
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the NOVEL Sadness In The House Of Love by Farouk Asvat
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#farouk #asvat #the #time #of #our #lives

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