Contemporary fiction books from Libya
Recommended contemporary fiction books (1)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from Libya for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Catalogue of a Private Life by Najwa Bin Shatwan AR
Description:
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has ... continue