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NOMINATED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025CBC BOOKS CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2024 DAYNE OGILVIE PRIZE FOR LGBTQ2S+ EMERGING WRITERSFINALIST FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZESTARRED REVIEWS IN KIRKUS, <em... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE 2023 PRIX PREMIÈRE PLUMEWINNER OF THE 2024 PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTSA heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek’s entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the ... Read more

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The Quarter

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Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This ... Read more

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Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This
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The stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already wellknown in the West, such as Idwar al-Kharrat, Fu'ad al-Takarli and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, the collection includes stories by key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East. This bilingual reader is ideal for students of ... Read more

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Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to ... Read more

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD‘a compelling, intricate and multifaceted tale’ –*The Saturday Paper‘Politica* can’t make war make sense (what can?), but it does offer a small balm. In her book Kassab looks horror in the eye, dignifies private desires and grieves their loss, and in doing so reminds us what being human ... Read more

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