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Cell Block Five Being plucked from a Baghdad café and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel’s hero and narrator, as he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit and shape. |
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2008-11-01 978-1-906697-03-7 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £5.59 |
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The Final Bet 'The Final Bet' is the first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English. In it in Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Educated but unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him ... |
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2008-10-27 978-1-906697-06-8 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £6.40 |
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Gold Dust Winner of the 2008 Zayed Creativity AwardRunner-up of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation 2009.... Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Eligible for free UK delivery. |
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2008-10-15 978-1-906697-02-0 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £6.40 |
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Memory in the Flesh Available now! 'MEMORY IN THE FLESH' is the first novel written by an Algerian Woman in Arabic and centres on Algeria's struggle against foregin domination, capturing four decades of the nation's tumultuous history. |
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2008-10-15 978-1-906697-04-4 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £7.19 |
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Love in Exile Unwilling to recant his Nasserist beliefs, the unnamed narrator is an Egyptian journalist in self-imposed exile in Europe after conflict with the management of his newspaper and a divorce from his wife. Absorbed in introspection over his impotent position at the paper and in ill health, he suddenly finds himself faced with two issues he cannot ignore: the escalating tensions in Israeli-occupied Lebanon and, more personally, an unexpected love affair with a much younger Austrian woman, Brigitte. |
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2008-09-01 978-1-906697-01-3 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £7.19 |