Download or read book Melancholy Memories written by Karen Dabrowska and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Iraqi exile who worked for the CIA but became disillusioned with the Western intervention in his country, an Islamic scholar who took up residence in Turkey and murdered her lovers wife, a safari guide cum tarot reader whose move to London was a breakfast in hell rather than the new dawn he dreamed of these are just some of the colourful characters in Karen Dabrowskas first collection of short stories. The characters in all eleven stories live in London but their lives are shaped by experiences abroad and dreams of a better life outside Europe.