Trumpet - Jackie Kay

Between my duality of life and death, and secret and public, Scottish novelist Jackie Kay delves in her novel "Trumpet" into everything that forms the excavations of the human heart and mind. In the midst of all these questions and tornnesses, which make an adopted son run after his shameful father's secret, and the widow of the deceased flee to a remote Scottish island, and everyone who knew him tries to reconstruct his life, like arranging puzzle pieces, Jackie Kay presents a story of deception and loyalty in a life built on a lie, yet she maintained a rare unconditional love. Jackie Kay's novel "Trumpet" received the Guardian Prize in 1998, and was recently published in an Arabic edition by Miskaliani Publishing House in Tunisia, translated into Arabic by Imad Al-Ahmad.