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Celebrating the forthcoming publication of The Calligrapher's Secret
The new novel from the acclaimed Syrian writer Rafik Schami.
The Dark Side of Love has been shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Arabia Books has published acclaimed Syrian novelist Rafik Schami's The Dark Side of Love
Naguib Mahfouz Medal For Literature Announced
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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 |
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The Loved Ones The Loved Ones is the story of Suhailia, who lies in a coma in a Paris hospital, and is kept alive by those who flock to her from all over the world to envelope her in the warmth of their friendship. |
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2008-09-01 978-1-906697-09-9 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £7.19 |
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Being Abbas el Abd “What is madness?” asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy’s new novel, Being Abbas el Abd. Assuring readers that they are about to find out, the narrator takes us on his subsequent itinerary through the insanity of present-day Cairo |
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2008-09-01 978-1-906697-05-1 Paperback UK & Commonwealth Arabia Books Price: £5.59 |
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A Certain Woman In Hala El Badry's prize-winning and controversial novel, 'A Certain Woman', Nahid is a woman searching for liberation, not from a repressive society or a male-dominated world, but from self-imposed taboos that inhibit a woman's ability to find fulfilment. |
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2008-09-01 978-1-906697-07-5 Paperback World except Middle East and North America Arabia Books Price: £7.19 |