Karim and Maya are lovers. They share a home they worry about money and then Maya falls pregnant. But Karim is still finishing his film degree pushing against his tutors' insistence that his art must be Arab like him. And Maya working a zero-hours job and fretting about her family can't find the time to quit smoking let alone have a child.Framed with fragments and peKarim and Maya are lovers. They share a home they worry about money and then Maya falls pregnant. But Karim is still finishing his film degree pushing against his tutors' insistence that his art must be Arab like him. And Maya working a zero-hours job and fretting about her family can't find the time to quit smoking let alone have a child.Framed with fragments and peppered with footnotes Exquisite Cadavers is at once a bricolage of influence and a love story that knows no borders.(less)