Contemporary fiction books set in Libya (2)
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Catalogue of a Private Life by Najwa Bin Shatwan EN
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A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has ... continue
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'The first Booker contender of 2024... a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday Times'My Friends is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile. It makes clear, on[Bokinfo].
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