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A Land Without Jasmine

Wajdi Al-Ahdal

Start date: May 15, 2015

Finish date: June 15, 2015

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Aug 03, 2020 Nina ( picturetalk321 ) rated it really liked it

Shelves: transl-arabic, z-read-gelesen-2020, author-man, 4-star, a-reviewed, world-yemen

What a strange book. But it is for these "strange" experiences that I read from countries like Yemen and small publishers like Garnet. For what seems "strange" to me is just a kind of narrative not informed by Anglophone creative-writing courses and NATO / ANZUS -treaty-nations' reading expectations.

I discovered this author via the excellent Banthology and was so happy to find a translated writer from Yemen. This novelette tells of the disappearance of a young woman, a university student, in 6 c ...more

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