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Fiction · 2023
The Bookseller’s Notebooks
Jalal Barjas, Translated by Paul G. Starkey
- Role
- Cover design
- Publisher
- Interlink Books
- Published
- Spring 2023
- Trim
- 5.25 × 8 in
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781623718206
- Design
- Cover design
Winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction—known as the “Arabic Booker Prize”— this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness. After losing his job and refuge, Ibrahim al-Warraq, a bookseller, decides to live with the homeless people in his city and assuming the identities of the heroes of the novels he has read.
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Rosheen Kaul & Joanna Hu, Photography by Armelle Habib · 2022