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Transactions

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July–August 2013, no. 353

Transactions by Ali Alizadeh

University of Queensland Press, $19.95 pb, 228 pp, 9780702249785

Transactions

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July–August 2013, no. 353

Transactions opens with a scene of duplicity and murder. In the following pages, Ali Alizadeh plunges readers into a ‘whirlpool of greed and apathy’. The collection revolves around an assortment of men and women from different parts of the world. We encounter Anna Heinesen, a Danish charity founder who is revealed to be a sex trafficker and religious zealot; Samia, a rich and racist Emirati student who surfs cyberspace under the alias ‘The Alchemist’; Karina, a Ukrainian sex worker who winds up doing a B-grade horror film in Australia; and a nameless Iranian refugee who criticises ‘pampered Westerners’, but who has sinister secrets of his own. The lives of these characters intersect in unpredictable ways.

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'Transactions' by Ali Alizadeh

Transactions

by Ali Alizadeh

University of Queensland Press, $19.95 pb, 228 pp, 9780702249785

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