Books: Fiction should prophesy the future
With his new book hitting stores, Benyamin says novel-writing is now a purely political act.
Benyaminthe Malayali writer Benny Danieldid not grow up a reader. Other than the Bible, which was read every night before supper in his orthodox Syrian Christian household, he had read no other books in his childhood. He began to read after moving to Bahrain in 1992. For the next seven years, he read voraciously, while working as a project coordinator at a construction site. Writing grew organically out of a readerly desire. I wished to read about the situations I felt and saw around me. But I
