Season of the Swamp Format:Paperback the greatest poet of the

the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language

to see through their eyes

I began illustrating it as a personal project and decided to set the story in Reading – the town of my birth and a connection to Oscar through ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’

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Vijay Maharaj creates a quite different kind of story for Leela

Season of the Swamp Format:Paperback the greatest poet of theNew Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Jurez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous Mexican president, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city. He falls in love with the music and food, but unavoidable, too, is the trade in human beings. A magnificent