Little Mogadishu
Place
Narratorial name for the district containing Beggarswell Close. Lady Snatch’s salon conducts its business here amid the novel’s deliberately offensive civic cartography.
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Connections
Who is found here
- Hawksmoor Perroquet ← responds to disaster in (1 passage)
- Lady Kelly Snatch workplace of (1 passage)
From the books (3 passages)
…entertained no scruples with respect to welcoming all and sundry to her place of business in Beggarswell Close, Little Mogadishu. Her charity extended even, that is to say most especially, to those adherents of the Eglise de la Bouteille, who made it their practice to congregate upon Turbo Island opposite the Ghastly Hipster Opposite Turbo Island. Lady Snatch maintained her cultural salon principally on those days when business was slow,…
“I heard them talking about me in there just now. On account of that dreadful business in Little Mogadishu.”
…was the much-repeated broadcast of the visit earlier that morning by the Mayor to the victims of the Little Mogadishu explosion. From the beginning, Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet had been made to look inept. The tone was set by the broadcast strapline, which was admittedly out of his control, and which in white capitals against a red background shrieked “AT LAST!” above, and below: “MAYOR FINALLY SHOWS HIS BEAK!” He was…