Author: Abaker Adam Ismail
ISBN: 978-0-9780431-0-3 Synopsis The Road to the Impossible Cities is a novel about the lives and fate of the dreams of a group of school boys: Awlad Girif “Husk Boys” group or ‘gang’ and another related group of school girls: Sirb Al-Asafir “The flock of the Sparrows.” The plot represents the struggle against vanity, the rigorous traditions, and the corrupted degenerating post-independent circumstances in Sudan in Africa. The theme of the novel is the deferred dreams of these youth and their fate. The Road to the Impossible Cities (Al-Tariq ila Al-Mudn Al-Mustahila) is an honest and intelligent plot of events that leave its readers in awe of its characters lives that are rarely represented through main stream novels in Africa.
About the Author  Abaker Adam Ismail, has a number of works of poetry and short stories. Published, in addition to the first edition of this work, his first novel Dreams in the Land of the Sun (2001), and The Other Shore (Toronto, The Key, 2006).
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