Barjas Jalal
Barjas Jalal - The Bookseller's Notebooks - Paperback
Barjas Jalal - The Bookseller's Notebooks - Paperback
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Description: After losing his job and refuge Ibrahim a bookseller decides to live with the homeless people in his city assuming the identities of the heroes of the novels he has read. Set between 1947 and 2019, this novel is based on several notebooks of stories about people facing different hardships. Their interwoven destinies reveal the value of the house as a symbol of one's homeland as opposed to the surrounding ruination. In intensely poetic language Barjas throws light on a totally schizophrenic reality in his country in this winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Title: The Bookseller's Notebooks
Author(s): Barjas Jalal
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group Inc
Barcode: 9781623718206
Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Date: 12/6/2022
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: After losing his job and refuge Ibrahim a bookseller decides to live with the homeless people in his city assuming the identities of the heroes of the novels he has read. Set between 1947 and 2019, this novel is based on several notebooks of stories about people facing different hardships. Their interwoven destinies reveal the value of the house as a symbol of one's homeland as opposed to the surrounding ruination. In intensely poetic language Barjas throws light on a totally schizophrenic reality in his country in this winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Title: The Bookseller's Notebooks
Author(s): Barjas Jalal
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group Inc
Barcode: 9781623718206
Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Date: 12/6/2022
Category: Fiction In Translation
