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“hassan daoud”

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  • The Penguin's Song

    by Hassan Daoud ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    "I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman"Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegiac novel has finally arrived in English . . . Daoud's novel seems to have inherted its sensibilities--its recursive and dense sentences, its damaged narrator, its poignant ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Road to Paradise

    A Novel

    by Hassan Daoud ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    Series series
    In a small Lebanese village a disillusioned imam, diagnosed with terminal cancer, must face his demons. Having consented to an arranged marriage, he has found himself in a loveless union and lusts after another. To please his family, he took up the robe and turban of his forefathers but the expected path to fulfillment did not unfold before him. Meticulous, sparse prose quietly evokes the essence ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
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  • Palace Walk

    The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Series Book 1 - The Cairo Trilogy
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  • The Aristocrat And The Desert Prince (Yaoi Novel)

    by Haruhi Tono, Ai Hasukawa ...
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  • To Touch a Sheikh

    by Olivia Gates ...
    Series series Pride of Zohayd
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  • To Tame a Sheikh

    by Olivia Gates ...
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    He'd noticed her across a crowded room, and in that instant Sheikh Shaheen Aal Shalaan wanted her. With just a few words, Shaheen had his mystery woman in his bed, where she awakened passions he'd long denied.Then the sheikh discovered his lover's true identity. She was Johara, his childhood friend, now fully blossomed into a vision he could not do without. But his lineage demanded he take a wife ... Read more

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  • Journey from the Land of No

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    by Roya Hakakian ...
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  • The Corpse Exhibition

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    **A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay’s Redeployment does for the American perspective“[A] wonderful collection.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review**The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The ... Read more

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