The Ten Incarnations of Adam AvatarTell me if I am mad, Adam Avatar, a copper skinned man with startling green eyes, asks Dr. Surendra Sankar, a psychiatrist in Trinidad. Aged forty nine, there is some urgency in his request, since he fears that, very shortly, when he reaches his fiftieth birthday, he will die at the hands of his nemesis, the Shadowman. Adam believes he is nearly five hundred years old and has gone through nine previous incarnations, including living as a fifteenth

and a teacher in varied locations including Belfast

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as well as one character’s passion for recreational lock-picking

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He is well-known in Yorkshire as one half of the spoken-word performance double-act ‘The Hull to Scarborough Line’

Larissa Szporluk

Turkey and Palestine

Michel Beard and Adnan Haydar

including The American Poetry Review and American Literary Review

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