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Review no 124: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)

A wide-ranging, best-selling novel set in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt that is more socially conservative than it thinks it is

Posted byimogenglad11th Dec 202013th Dec 2020Posted inbookTags: book, book review, books in translation, Egypt, middle east and north africa, novel, translated literature3 Comments on Review no 124: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)

Review no 112: The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (Georgia)

A Georgian novel published in 2020 by Peirene about the residents of a school for abandoned children

Posted byimogenglad27th Oct 202031st Oct 2020Posted inbookTags: Georgia, Nana Ekvtimishvili, novel, novella, Peirene, South Caucasus, The Pear Field, translated literature, women_in_translation1 Comment on Review no 112: The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (Georgia)

Review no 74: The Pact We Made by Layla Alammar (Kuwait)

Dahlia feels trapped in her life in cosmopolitan Kuwait, with her well-meaning family who nevertheless refuse to acknowledge the trauma of her teen years

Posted byimogenglad14th May 20204th Jun 2020Posted inbookTags: books, female writers, Kuwait, North Africa Middle East and Central Asia, novel1 Comment on Review no 74: The Pact We Made by Layla Alammar (Kuwait)

Review no 49: Snow, Dog, Foot, Claudio Morandini (Italy)

Is this a mystery story or survival lit? Either way it’s a great read.

Posted byimogenglad5th Feb 20204th Jun 2020Posted inbookTags: Europe, european fiction, fiction, italian fiction, italy, mystery, new books, novel, snowy, survival, translated literature, winter5 Comments on Review no 49: Snow, Dog, Foot, Claudio Morandini (Italy)

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