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  • Time of White Horses

    A Novel

    Translated by Nancy Roberts ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    WINNER OF THE 2026 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ~ SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION"Nasrallah's intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized "—New StatesmanSpanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gaza Weddings

    A Novel

    Translated by Nancy Roberts ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    From the author of Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of GalileeTwin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tell them apart, they grow up surrounded by the random carnage that characterizes life under occupation.Randa, who wants to be a journalist, writes to record the devastation around her, taking pictures of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lanterns of the King of Galilee

    A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine

    Translated by Nancy Roberts ...
    **An epic novel of historic Palestine from the award-winning author of Time of White Horses"His writing, deeply rooted in themes of exile, identity, and resistance, has been translated into multiple languages, earning him international acclaim as one of the most important voices in contemporary Arab literature."—World Literature Today**In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee’s ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Night

    A Modern Arabic Novel

    Translated by Bakr R. Abbas ...
    "I could not believe that human beings could forget so easily. . . ." Love and life, sex and death, childhood and oppression are Inside the Night. Vivid moments of remembrance, disparate yet interconnected, come together to form the body torn but not broken of this novel. Beginning with a scene of departure, the two nameless narrators roam back and forth in time, veering from childhood mischief to ... Read more

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  • The Book of Ramallah

    A City in Short Fiction

    Series series Reading the City
    A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself...A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must kiss a complete stranger if he wants the bus to be let through...A woman pilgrimages to the Cave of the Prophets, to pray for rain for her tiny patch of land, knowing it will take more than water to save it.. ... Read more

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  • Savushun

    A Novel About Modern Iran

    Translated by M. R. Ghanoonparvar ...
    Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-Islamic monuments, the great poets, the shrines, Sufis, and nomadic tribes within a historical web of the interests, privilege and influence of foreign powers; corruption, incompetence and arrogance of persons in authority; ... Read more

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  • The Exile Kiss

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    From a Nebula Award winner: A "phenomenal," action-packed tale of crime, corruption, and cybernetics ( Locus).Set in a divided near future, The Exile Kiss is author George Alec Effinger's third book about the high-tech Arab ghetto called the Budayeen. It is a world filled with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory additions and ... Read more

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  • Man in Blue Pyjamas (The)

    A Prison Memoir

    Translated by Sabah A. Salih ...
    Series series Wayfarer
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  • Missing Soluch

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    Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village. It ... Read more

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