Goat DaysNow in paperback, Benyamin's wry and tender telling transforms the strange and bitter comedy of Najeebs life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation. In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeebs dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf country and earn enough money to send some back home. One day, he finally achieves this dream, only to be propelled by a series of incidentsgrim and absurdinto a slave like existence,