'Ahmad's piercing storytelling cuts away at the lace and trimmings of race relations in Australia today. No one who reads The Lebs deserves to come out unscathed.' - The Saturday Paper His debut novel, The Tribe (Giramondo, 2014), won the 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists of the Year Award. 'The author never lets his superb command of idiom or his eye for the absurd overwhelm a deeply felt exploration of the hurt and damage that can come from encounters with the Australian Other. Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of the critically acclaimed anthology, After Australia (Affirm Press, 2020). 'The Lebs is a strong and resonant novel that deserves to be widely read.' - Weekend Australian 'an open-eyed and highly charismatic novel broiling with fight, tenderness and ambition.' - Big Issue He is a romantic in a sea of hypermasculinity.īani must come to terms with his place in this hostile, hopeless world, while dreaming of so much more. Though he's a Leb and they control the school, Bani feels at odds with the other students, who just don't seem to care. I hold their anticipation for three seconds, and then, while they're all ablaze, I say out loud, 'I do think I'm better.'Īs far as Bani Adam is concerned Punchbowl Boys is the arse end of the earth. They all go quiet and wait for me to explain myself, redeem myself, pull my shirt out, rejoin the pack. Edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad, awardwinning author of The Lebs. 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and over until finally I shout back, 'Shut up, I have something to say!' In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia’s most daring writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia in the year 2050. WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIERS LITERARY AWARDS MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2019 FINALIST FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDS 2019
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