The Glass Wall by Goran Baba Ali

<p><a href="www.goranbabaali.com" target="_blank">Goran Baba Ali</a>, author of <a href="https://www.afsanapress.uk/2021/10/12/the-glass-wall/" target="_blank">The Glass Wall</a>, talks to Martin Nathan, Tabitha Potts and Miki Lentin about his novel and reads a brief extract.</p> <p>The Glass Wall is about a teenage refugee who must relive the pain of his past to enter the land waiting behind a glass wall. Will his story be convincing enough to guarantee his safety?</p> <p>Goran Baba Ali has written and published various literary and journalistic works in Kurdish, Dutch and English. <i>The Glass Wall</i> is his debut novel in the English language.</p> <p>As an ex-refugee, originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, he has personally experienced some of the protagonist’s hardship in this novel, including a few weeks living in a desert. </p> <p>The producer of this episode was Martin Nathan.</p> <p>Sound effects taken from <a href="https://freesound.org" target="_blank">Freesound.org</a> and licensed under the Creative Commons 0 license. </p>