“Jumbam’s Beads of Memory adds fresh breadth to postcolonial
literature through its oneiric poesis of Madrid, exploring that city’s
shadowed spaces and the half-lives of its immigrant (pseudo)students.
Its rhapsodic rhythm and incisive expression arrest the reader-listener
from the very first lines and sustains their interest to the very last,
leaving them at the mercy of the narrator’s galloping but alluring
consciousness that is exteriorised in this memoir.”
