Twenty-year-old Prince Jappath is lost in the woods for what feels like almost a week. After struggling to return to his father’s kingdom, Dore, he finds that he has been gone for ten years and that the kingdom is preparing for war. Haunted by fragmented memories of a warrior princess, Jappath struggles to solve a […]
Seductive, erotic and bubbling with the most minute of details, The Scents of Marie-Claire, set in Paris, tells of the extraordinary relationship between the Tunisian-born narrator and French Marie-Claire. From the moment they set eyes upon each other until the moment she leaves him, the narrator describes every stage of their relationship; sexual fascination, passion, […]
Set in the Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet tells the saga of the Bishari family—a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of human desire, and the rigid […]
Set in Cairo in the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967, Love in the Rain introduces us to an assortment of characters who, each in his or her own way, comes face to face with the questions raised by human weakness and misfortune. The war and its casualties, as well as people’s foibles and […]
Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon’s sectarian civil war, before becoming a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, an arms smuggler, and then a rapist. And then he falls in love with his victim – who turns him in to the police. This novel is a modern […]
This is a historical novel about Palestine. The characters are fictitious, but the dates, locations and historical events are real. The story begins in the Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon in 1982, the year of the massacre. The main character is a schoolboy, Farres, to whom his great-grandmother, Miriam, hands over a string of ‘worry’ […]