Navigating (Dis)Belief: Rachelle Atalla & Chris Kohler
26 Apr 2025 - 17:15
Navigating (Dis)Belief: Rachelle Atalla & Chris Kohler
Part of
our Life’s Fundamentals series, we’re joined by two novelists whose
mind-bending tales ask serious questions about what we truly believe.
Scottish Egyptian writer and screenwriter Rachelle Atalla has been widely
praised for her first two novels, The Pharmacist and Thirsty Animals, whilst
her latest, The Salt Flats, follows a group of people seeking spiritual
enlightenment at a mysterious retreat in the Bolivian salt flats. Will they
find what they’re looking for or will this increasingly disorientating
odyssey amidst a climate crisis force them to confront truths they’ve been
trying to hide?
Chris Kohler is a Glasgow-based writer, whose debut novel, Phantom Limb,
follows a failed athlete turned church minister, whose discovery of a
disembodied hand in his kirk grounds is made worse when it starts to move!
The fantastical journey that ensues towards salvation serves only to
highlight the disenfranchised state of a post-industrial, faithless society
and the oppressive weight of history that still hangs overhead.
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