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combining African and Spanish influences
Adeni Incense Carmen Pellegrino and translated by Shaun Whiteside The Water Statues—with its bandTeeming with Arabs, Indians, Somalis, Europeans, and others, Aden is like no other city in the world. A transcendent city. A city for all, no matter Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or animist. And when Michel, a young Frenchman, washes ashore, fleeing his past in search of a new future, hes immediately drawn into this intoxicating cocktail of dreamers, revolutionaries, artists, and politicians who have all found a place within the citys vibrant atmosphere. Yet