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3 THE BAMBOO STALK SAUD ALSANOUSI THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF OBJECTS MAI AL-NAKIB TELEPATHY AMIR TAG ELSIR BITTER ALMONDS LILAS TAHA BLACK BOOK OF ARABIA SHEIKHA HEND AL QASSEMI THE HOLY SAIL ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD NEW RELEASES ENGLISH

The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi Original Title: Saq Al-Bamboo Translation: Jonathan Wright

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2013 • Best-seller in the Middle East • Powerful and outspoken, this is the book that took the Arab world by storm

‘Engrossing, political and heartfelt’ – Bidisha

GENRE: FICTION Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work FORMAT: HARDback ISBN: 97899271017799 as a maid, where she meets Rashid. Josephine, with all the e-pub ISBN: 9789927101786 wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of RIGHTS: World English the Gulf War growing ever louder, Rashid abandons her and Language sends her back home with their baby son José.

‘Alsanousi is a voice Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the Philippines, José clings to the hope of returning to his of conscience.’ father’s country when he turns eighteen. Will his Kuwaiti – Independent family live up to his expectations? José’s coming of age tale draws in readers as he explores his own questions about identity and estrangement.

Alsanousi crafts a captivating saga that boldly deals with issues of identity and alienation.

Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi, and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives in Kuwait. 4 ENGLISH NEW RELEASES

The Hidden Light of Objects Mai Al-Nakib

• Winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s 2014 First Book Award • A stunning collection of short stories reminiscent of the works of Amy Tan, Alice Munro, and Jhumpa Lahiri

‘The old world and the new. The strife in the Gulf. East and West, Arabic and English, the poetry of the heart, the eye of the hawk; all these elements produce the lustrous pearls of GENRE: FICTION Mai Al-Nakib’s short stories.’ FORMAT: PAPERback – Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Beirut Blues ISBN: 9789927101168 e-pub isbn: 978992710144 A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a RIGHTS: World barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on ‘An exciting new his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his literary voice’ wife. –National

The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East ‘Al-Nakib writes with as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, penetrating insight pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous and such compressed stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of lyricism that at times objects to hold extraordinary memories. her prose seems to border on poetry. It’s Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD a densely imagined in English literature from Brown University and teaches and beautifully postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait written debut. University. This is her first collection of short stories. She lives in Kuwait and is currently writing her first novel. – Sydney Morning Herald 5 NEW RELEASES ENGLISH

Telepathy Amir Tag Elsir Original Title: Taqs Translation: William Hutchins

• An elegant, spine-chilling literary novella • From an author shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011 • A best-selling author in the Middle East

A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary fantasy and real-life tragedy GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERback ISBN: 9789927101892 A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most e-pub ISBN: 9789927118067 idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in PUB DATE: 18/6/2015 an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never RIGHTS: World met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate? ‘Widely regarded as a giant among Arabic Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the fiction writers.’ unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own – Daily News, Egypt creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between imagination and reality.

Also available Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has in Arabic p.30 published a number of novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College 6 of Medicine, he now lives in Doha. ENGLISH NEW RELEASES

Bitter Almonds Lilas Taha

• Set in Palestine and Syria, a novel about the most universal emotion of them all: love • Perfect for all those who loved Mornings in Jenin

In the fight for freedom, will he lose his heart?

Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope. GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDback Nadia is maturing into womanhood in a refugee community ISBN: 9789927118005 in Damascus. She tries hard to cope with the tough realities e-pub ISBN: 9789927118012 of her world. But she is confronted with a cruel load thrust PUB DATE: 13/08/2015 RIGHTS: World upon her by a selfish brother. Can she break out of her traditional social mold to create her own destiny?

Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the Gulf War. 7 NEW RELEASES ENGLISH

Black Book of Arabia Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi

• Original, witty, and feisty – a delightful new voice from the Gulf • A collection of short stories – some light-hearted, some heart-wrenching, some feminist – all surprising

Lifting the veil on life and love beyond the palace gates

A princess from Sharjah in the UAE writes stories about women who live and love in the Middle East. These candid,

GENRE: FICTION moving and inspirational tales, based on true stories, will FORMAT: Paperback resonate with readers around the world. ISBN: 9789927118098 e-pub ISBN: 9789927118104 Meet a princess whose best friend literally tries to steal her PUB DATE: 13/8/2015 wedding, down to her bridal shoes and fiancé; a bride who RIGHTS: World mysteriously goes blind on her wedding day and stays blind for years; a woman whose romantic Parisian honeymoon proves too good to be true; and a jealous wife who lures her husband into falling in love with another woman.

Sheikha Hend Faisal Al Qassemi is Emirati and lives in Sharjah and Doha. An accomplished artist, successful entrepreneur, and committed philanthropist, she is editor- in-chief of Velvet, a high-end fashion and lifestyle magazine published in Dubai and distributed around the world. 8 ENGLISH NEW RELEASES

The Holy Sail Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud Original Title: Al-Shira’ Al-Moqaddas Translation: Karim Traboulsi

• Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer • In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and high treason • Historical fiction covering a neglected episode of history

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf. In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist… GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: PAPERback Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, ISBN: 9789927101670 and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is e-pub ISBN: 9789927101687 still unchartered territory… PUB DATE: 3/12/2015 RIGHTS: World Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes ‘The author has are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on brilliantly established securing the profitable spice trade. a dramatic structure with great political Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous awareness… an historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah excellent historical and Istanbul. mind.’ – Al Jazeera

Also Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. available He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula in Arabic newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has p.46 previously authored The Corsair, also a Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing title. 9 ENGLISH HIGHLIGHTS

11 THE ARCH AND THE BUTTERFLY MOHAMMED ACHAARI BEIRUT, BEIRUT SONALLAH IBRAHIM BLUE LORRIES RADWA ASHOUR DAYS OF IGNORANCE LAILA ALJOHANI GOLDA SLEPT HERE SUAD AMIRY JUNE RAIN JABBOUR DOUAIHY LAND OF NO RAIN AMJAD NASSER THROWING SPARKS ABDO KHAL WHERE PIGEONS DON’T FLY YOUSEF AL-MOHAIMEED HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

The Arch and the Butterfly Mohammed Achaari Original Title: Al-Qaws Wa’l-Farasha Translation: Aida Bamia

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011 • Written by a leading Moroccan writer and political figure

One letter, one morning. And his life was never the same again. GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: paperback As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef al- ISBN: 9789992179055 e-pub ISBN: 9789992195451 Firsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single PUB DATE: 8/5/2014 devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he rights: world except believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed arabic language in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance.

Yousif, the son of a Moroccan father and German-born ‘An impressive, if mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies bleak, fictional that reflect the changing world he lives in. With his world exploration in the already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his roots of Radical Islam wife for another man, Yousif begins to question everything – including his own values and identity. – and the difficulties challenging it’ –Independent

Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. His work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second 12 novel. ENGLISH HIGHLIGHTS

Beirut, Beirut Sonallah Ibrahim Original Title: Beirut, Beirut Translation: Chip Rossetti

• From one of the most important and controversial Egyptian writers of a generation • A fascinating insight into the region and some of the historical reasons of ongoing unrest

A city – known for its light-heartedness, vibrancy and capacity for fun – is ripped apart by war GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: paperback November, 1980. An Egyptian writer has chosen the wrong ISBN: 9789992194522 time to come to Beirut in search of a publisher for his e-pub ISBN: 9789927101342 controversial book. Men with machine guns are on every PUB DATE: 11/9/2014 street corner. When the writer meets an old friend from RIGHTS: World English Language his revolutionary student days, he is introduced to two fascinating women: idealistic film-maker Antoinette and Lamia, the seductive wife of his would-be publisher. His ‘Ibrahim is a sort attentions inevitably turn towards the two women, but the background rumble of strife and struggle becomes of oracle.’ increasingly hard to ignore. – New Yorker

Based on the author’s real-life experience of the civil war in Lebanon, Beirut, Beirut is an exploration of how, even in the midst of chaos and violence, universals such as love, desire and yearning are still always our guiding forces.

After studying at Cairo University, Sonallah Ibrahim worked as a journalist until he was imprisoned in 1959 for his political activities. Since his debut prison novel, That Smell, he has been a full-time writer. He is particularly celebrated for the way he uses literature to speak out against political regimes. 13 HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

Blue Lorries Radwa Ashour Original Title: Farag Translation: Barbara Romaine

• One of the most important Egyptian writers of her generation • Blue Lorries is a clear voice through three generations of political struggle in Egypt

One woman’s life. Three generations of defiance. A tale of Egypt then and now GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: HARDback ISBN: 9789992194485 Nada is no stranger to protest. She is five years old when e-pub ISBN: 9789927101250 her French mother takes her to visit her Egyptian father, PUB DATE: 22/5/2014 a political activist in prison. When he returns home, a RIGHTS: World English changed man, their little family begins to fracture. Through Language her teenage years Nada is surrounded by the language of protest – ‘anarchism’, ‘Trotskyism’, ‘Communism’. ‘An important writer Through student sit-ins, imprisonments, passionate whose exemplary arguments, accidental alliances, fallen friends, joys and work we need more regrets, Nada’s story grows into the story of Egypt’s many of in English.’ celebrated activists. – Independent Moving, uplifting and deeply human, Radwa Ashour’s masterpiece is the story of Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century and a paean to all those who choose a life of activism and quiet defiance.

Radwa Ashour was an Egyptian writer and scholar. A long-time professor of English literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, she held a PhD from the University of Massachusetts. Ashour passed away in late November 2014. She is survived by her husband, Mourid Barghouti, 14 and son, Tamim. ENGLISH HIGHLIGHTS

Days of Ignorance Laila Aljohani Original Title: Jahiliyya Translation: Nancy Roberts

• Award-winning author in her English language debut

A Romeo and Juliet for our times

Medina, Saudi Arabia. A young man, Malek, has been brutally attacked for being of the ‘wrong’ race.

GENRE: FICTION Malek’s lover, Leen, waits by his bedside and reflects on their FORMAT: HARDback relationship and her life as an unmarried, childless woman. ISBN: 9789992195192 All around her are voices of judgment and concern; in the e-pub ISBN: 9789927101281 twenty-first century it is still unforgivable, and dangerous, PUB DATE: 3/7/2014 for a Saudi woman to enter into a relationship with a black RIGHTS: World English Language man. In the distance US planes hover over Iraq, primed to embark on yet another senseless conflict. ‘[These]… artfully Malek’s attacker was Leen’s brother. orchestrated Flinging wide a window onto the second holiest Islamic ambivalences and city – a city in which people observe daily prayers and preach moral conundrums equality and justice – Days of Ignorance is a novel about power the book and honour, hypocrisy, war and fear. And, glimmering beyond, beneath and behind it all, love. highlight Aljohani’s skill at manipulating emotional responses.’ – National Laila Aljohani is an award-winning Saudi Arabian writer of short stories and novels. She was born in the northern city of Tubuq, Saudi Arabia.

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Golda Slept Here Suad Amiry

• Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino

If buildings could tell their stories…

Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East.

GENRE: NON-FICTION Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli FORMAT: paperback doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian ISBN: 9789927101465 past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments e-pub ISBN: 9789927101441 and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of PUB DATE: 10/11/2014 Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the RIGHTS: World Arabic and tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between English language official histories and private memories. Through poetry Praise for Suad Amiry: and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between ‘A refreshingly remembering and forgetting. funny account of the absurdities of

everyday life in Also occupied territories.’ available in Arabic – Observer p.34

‘Spirited, thought- provoking and Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where shockingly she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural entertaining.’ Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia – Daily Mail Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004.

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June Rain Jabbour Douaihy Original Title: Matar Hzayran Translation: Paula Haydar

• Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2006 • Runner-up for the 2014 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

‘A poweful novel which one cannot fail to recommend’ – Etudes. GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: paperback On June 16, 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern ISBN: 9789992142783 Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of e-pub ISBN: 9789927101311 the massacre, the town is split into two. But lives once so PUB DATE: 5/6/2014 closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbors turn RIGHTS: World English Language into enemies, and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. ‘Cries out for an At the center of this novel is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about English translation.’ the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre: – National the father he never knew. ‘A powerful and With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy describes that fateful Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the complex novel.’ traditions and affections of village life were consumed by – Le Canard Enchâiné violence and revenge.

Jabbour Douaihy was born in 1949 in Zgharta, Lebanon. He is a professor of French literature at the Lebanese University and has published numerous novels and short story collections. He lives in Lebanon.

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Land of No Rain Amjad Nasser Original Title: Haythou La Tasqoutoul Amtar Translation: Jonathan Wright

• First novel by a highly-regarded Jordanian poet • An uncompromising look at the personal and emotional cost of political exile

‘One of the best books I’ve read in a long time’ – Ahdaf Soueif

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: paperback Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab country ISBN: 9789992194584 run by military commanders who treat power as a personal e-pub ISBN: 9789927101175 possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. PUB DATE: 24/4/2014 The main character was forced into exile from Hamiya twenty RIGHTS: World English Language years earlier for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters family, childhood friends, former ‘An irresistible shape- comrades and his first love, but most importantly he grapples shifting novel.’ with his own self, the person he left behind. – Guardian Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written numerous volumes of poetry and several travel memoirs. He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and since 1987 he has lived in London where he is managing editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily 18 newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel. ENGLISH HIGHLIGHTS

Throwing Sparks Abdo Khal Original Title: Tarmi Bi Sharar Translation: Maia Tabet and Michael K. Scott

• Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010 • Author is a former fundamentalist preacher, now a hard- hitting and controversial novelist • Novel is banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan

A shocking and satirical novel that explores the devastating GENRE: FICTION effects of limitless wealth FORMAT: HARDback ISBN: 9789992179093 When an opulent palace is built on the Jeddah waterfront, e-pub ISBN: 9789992194287 PUB DATE: 24/10/2013 ambitious Tariq sees a way out of his life of petty crime. RIGHTS: World except He stares longingly at the huge gates, dreaming of the Arabic language luxuries beyond.

But dream quickly turns into nightmare. The Palace is ruled ‘Abdo Khal shines by an enigmatic Master whose influence in the city is as a light on life at the wide as it is wicked. When Tariq succeeds in being appointed bottom of the heap, to serve the Master it becomes clear that he has been chosen for a single, terrible task. in Saudi’s often forgotten villages. Years later, Tariq is trapped. He has become no more than His voice blends a slave – and there is only one way out. image-rich poetic classicism with contemporary patois, Born in Saudi Arabia in 1962, Abdo Khal studied political which makes for science and began his career as a preacher before becoming an unmistakably a primary school teacher. He turned to writing as a way of attacking the corruption of the wealthy in the Arab world. Arab mix.’ – Guardian 19 HIGHLIGHTS ENGLISH

Where Pigeons Don’t Fly Yousef Al-Mohaimeed Original Title: Alhamam La Yatiru Fi Buraydah Translation: Robin Moger

• Coming of age in Saudi: not for the fainthearted • Winner of the 2011 Chebbi Prize, one of the most respected literary prizes in the Arab world

GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: paperback ‘Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is a rising star in international ISBN: 9789992179161 literature’ – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain e-pub ISBN: 9789927101373 PUB DATE: 4/12/2014 Where Pigeons Don’t Fly follows the story of Fahd, a young RIGHTS: World except boy growing up in Saudi Arabia. Fahd’s childhood is Arabic language overshadowed by his father’s involvement in the attack on ‘Yousef Al- the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Mohaimeed writes Now an artist and critic, the adult Fahd finds that, both in a lush style that in work and in love, he is at loggerheads with repressive evokes Gabriel García cultural and religious norms. When he and his girlfriend are Márquez.’ detained by the ‘virtue’ police, Fahd contemplates a life of – Washington Post self-imposed exile in a remote corner of Britain, rather than remaining somewhere he doesn’t feel he belongs. ‘At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia.’ – Hanan al-Shaykh, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has published several novels and short story author of A Thousand collections in Arabic, and his work has been translated into and One Nights English, Russian, Spanish and German.

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23 IN THE HOPE OF VIRGINS JAMAL NAJI KILIMANJARO SPIRIT IBRAHIM NASRALLAH AFTER COFFEE ABDELRASHID MAHMOUDI COMING SOON ENGLISH

In the Hope of Virgins Jamal Naji Original Title: Mawsim Al-Houriyyat Translation: Paula Haydar

• A brand new title by a leading Arab author • Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the Middle East • For all those who loved The Reluctant Fundamentalist

This is no ordinary coming of age story…

GENRE: FICTION Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, FORMAT: paperback ISBN: 9789927118111 a wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given e-pub ISBN: 9789927118128 news that shakes the very foundations of his existence. PUB DATE: 21/4/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD Meanwhile, a 20-year-old young man is fighting with the Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn apart by feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on a course headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So begins a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken by sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different stages of their lives – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy missions.

With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and even India.

Also available Jamal Naji is a Jordanian novelist of Palestinian descent, in Arabic p.33 who was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2010. He was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his narrative writing, the most prestigious award in Jordan. 24 ENGLISH COMING SOON

Kilimanjaro Spirit Ibrahim Nasrallah Original Title: Arwah’ Kilimanjaro Translation: Paula Haydar

• From an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009 • A much-loved best-selling author in the Arab world

Losing another is agony. But what about when you lose yourself?

GENRE: FICTION A group of disparate individuals, each battling with their FORMAT: paperback own private loss, find themselves thrown together on a ISBN: 9789927118418 mission to summit Kilimanjaro. Hailing from Palestine, e-pub ISBN: 9789927118425 Lebanon, Egypt and America, the characters test the limits of PUB DATE: 5/5/2016 their physical and emotional strength to prove to themselves RIGHTS: WORLD and others that they can transcend their strife-ridden histories and start a new, unburdened life.

The novel was inspired by real-life events when Ibrahim Nasrallah succeeded in summiting Mount Kilimanjaro in January 2014 with a group of volunteers and two Palestinian adolescents who had lost their legs. Nasrallah’s work juxtaposes the horrific experiences of its main Palestinian characters, who have lost limbs in an Israeli bombing, with the sombre stories of its characters from other nationalities.

Also available Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah in Arabic is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and p.38 photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro was the first to include participation of an Arab author and was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab children in need of medical care. 25 COMING SOON ENGLISH

After Coffee Abdelrashid Mahmoudi

• Winner of the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Award

After Coffee is an experimental literary tour de force

Set in 1940s Austria and Egypt, After Coffee traces the fate of Methat – a troubled young man torn between his love of two women.

Classical music – from Bach to Brahms – entwines the

GENRE: FICTION central narrative, and the experimental prose, skillfully FORMAT: HARDback interwoven with poems, proverbs, and passages from the ISBN: 9789927118302 Quran, beautifully conjures up an Egypt of long ago. e-pub ISBN: 9789927118319 PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 RIGHTS: WORLD english language

Abdelrashid Mahmoudi studied philosophy at Cairo University and in London. He received his PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Manchester. He previously worked for the BBC and UNESCO.

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29 TAQS AMIR TAG ELSIR QALAM AN-NAJJAR MANUEL RIVAS AL-ISLAM WA AL-HORRIYA TARIQ RAMADAN MAWSIM AL-HOURIYYAT JAMAL NAJI GOLDA NAMAT HONA SUAD AMIRY BAYNA AL-ARDH WA AL-SAMAA’ SOPHIA AL-MARIA AL-KHURUJ MIN HUNAK SELMA DABBAGH WA RADDAT AL-JIBAL AL-SADA KHALED HOSSEINI ARWAH’ KILIMANJARO IBRAHIM NASRALLAH LIMADHA TAFSHAL MU’DHAM AL SHARIKAT AL-SAGHIRA MICHAEL E. GERBER THIQAH ARIEL DORFMAN NEW RELEASES ARABIC

Taqs Amir Tag Elsir English Title: Telepathy

• From an author shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction • A best-selling author in the Middle East

A psychological thriller blurring the line between literary fantasy and real-life tragedy.

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most GENRE: FICTION idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in FORMAT: PAPERback an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never ISBN: 9789927101885 met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely PUB DATE: 15/1/2015 RIGHTS: World death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate?

‘Widely regarded as a Elsir takes his readers on a chilling journey through giant among Arabic the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides fiction writers.’ of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, – Daily News, Egypt poverty stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the relationship between imagination and reality.

Also available Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer and doctor and has in English p.6 published a number of novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. His novel The Grub Hunter was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011. Having studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of 30 Medicine, he now lives in Doha. ARABIC NEW RELEASES

Qalam An-Najjar Manuel Rivas Original Title: El Lápiz Del Carpintero Translation: Saleh Almani

• A best-seller in Spain, Qalam An-Najjar has been published in nine countries • Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the most important contemporary Spanish authors • Winner of the Critics’ Award and the Galician Writers’ Association Award in 1998

GENRE: FICTION ‘A strange and haunting novel… a sincere and beautiful FORMAT: PAPERback portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history’ ISBN: 9789992194898 – Guardian PUB DATE: 19/1/2015 RIGHTS: Arabic language Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an- Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican who cheats death in Franco’s prisons, and ‘I have learned more Herbal, the illiterate Falangist, and of the unnamed painter about the Spanish with the carpenter’s pencil, the man who unites them in life Civil War by reading and death. The Carpenter’s Pencil

All are bound together by the events of the Civil War – the by Manuel Rivas artists and the peasants alike – and all haunted by the power than through all the of the carpenter’s pencil. history books.’ – Günter Grass, Nobel Prize of Literature 1999 Manuel Rivas was born in La Coruña. From novels, poetry, plays and essays, he covers every genre, varying his stylistic methods between the colloquial language of the man on the street in his Galician homeland and a more lyrical tone. His literature gives voice to the memory of the wounds suffered by the body, land, and language. 31 NEW RELEASES ARABIC

Al-Islam Wa Al-Horriya Tariq Ramadan Original Title: What I Believe Translation: Osama El Ghazoly

• Named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, as well as one of the most important innovators of the 21st century

A thought-provoking account of modern western Muslim GENRE: Non-Fiction life written by one of the most important scholars of Islamic FORMAT: PAPERback thought today. ISBN: 9789992194577 PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 RIGHTS: Arabic language Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar and an outspoken public figure. This combination has made him a controversial figure, characterized by both sides of the ‘What I Believe is spectrum as either too liberal or too radical. In an attempt one of today’s most to set the record straight, Ramadan lays out his beliefs, important books.’ speaking directly to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike.

– San Francisco/ Ramadan deals with deeply emotional and divisive issues Sacramento Book surrounding perceptions of Islam and those who practice it, Review particularly in Europe and the West in general. Using clear and accessible prose, Ramadan changes the narrative of immigration, religion, and radicalism into one about human dignity, multiculturalism and social justice.

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the Oxford University and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is President of the European think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels. He is a member of the International Union of Muslim 32 Scholars. ARABIC NEW RELEASES

Mawsim Al-Houriyyat Jamal Naji English Title: In The Hope of Virgins

• A brand new title by a leading Arab author • Captures the post-Arab Spring atmosphere across the Middle East

An unflinching exploration of life in a region rocked by the radicalisation of Muslim youth.

Amidst the violence rippling across the Middle East, a wealthy businessman is visited by an oracle and is given GENRE: FICTION news that shakes the very foundations of his existence. FORMAT: PAPERback ISBN: 9789927118074 PUB DATE: 23/4/2015 Meanwhile, a 20-year-old young man is fighting with the RIGHTS: World Islamic faction against the Syrian regime. But torn apart by feelings of shame and betrayal, he sets himself on a course headed towards revenge and self-destruction. So begins a journey that takes readers across a region overtaken by sectarian and religious strife, as two men – at different stages of their livs – embark on their ill-begotten, unholy missions.

With nuance and precision, Naji captures the characters and landscape of a post-Arab Spring Middle East, taking readers from Jordan to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and India.

Also available in English Jamal Naji is a Jordanian short story writer and novelist of Palestinian descent, who was shortlisted for the IPAF p.24 in 2010. He was awarded the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his narrative writing. Naji works as head of the Intelligentsia Centre for Research and Survey in Amman, Jordan. 33 NEW RELEASES ARABIC

Golda Namat Hona Suad Amiry Original Title: Golda Slept Here Translation: Ayman H. Haddad

• Suad Amiry is the 2014 winner of the Premio Nonino

Palestine: the Presence of the Absent

In this literary-historical tour de force, Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré GENRE: Non-Fiction FORMAT: PAPERback Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East. ISBN: 9789927101434 PUB DATE: 21/5/2015 Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli RIGHTS: World English and doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian Arabic language past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments and personal tragedies; evokes the sights and smells of Praise for Suad Amiry: Palestinian architecture and food; and weaves for us the tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between ‘A refreshingly official histories and private memories. Through poetry funny account of and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost the absurdities of Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between remembering and forgetting. everyday life in occupied territories.’ Also available – Observer in English p.16 ‘Spirited, thought- provoking and Architect and writer Suad Amiry lives in Ramallah where shockingly she is director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural entertaining.’ Conservation. She received the Italian Viareggio-Versilia – Daily Mail Prize for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law in 2004.

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Bayna Al-Ardh Wa Al-Samaa’ Sophia Al-Maria Original Title: The Girl Who Fell to Earth Translation: Ziad Ziady

• Award-winning filmaker and coiner of the term Gulf Futurism

With poignancy and humor, Al-Maria shares the struggles of being raised by an American mother and Bedouin father GENRE: Fiction/Memoir FORMAT: PAPERback When Sophia Al-Maria’s mother sends her away from rainy ISBN: 9789927101915 Washington State to stay with her husband’s desert-dwelling PUB DATE: 2/7/2015 Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of RIGHTS: Arabic language teenage cultural boot camp.

Struggling to adapt to her nomadic lifestyle, Sophia is ‘[Sophia Al-Maria] haunted by the feeling that she is perpetually in exile: offers us an original hovering somewhere between two worlds. She embarks on outlook on ancient a complex journey that includes finding young love in the ground – what any Arabian Gulf, rebellion in Cairo, and, finally, self-discovery in the mountains of Sinai. artist hopes to achieve.’ – New York Times’ The Girl Who Fell to Earth heralds the arrival of an electric Sunday Book Review new talent and takes us on the most personal of quests: the voyage home.

Sophia Al-Maria is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum in New York, and the Architectural Association in London. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Five Dials, Triple Canopy, and Bidoun. 35 NEW RELEASES ARABIC

Al-Khuruj Min Hunak Selma Dabbagh Original Title: Out of It Translation: Kholoud Amr

• Nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year in 2011 • An unblinking look at life in Gaza, beyond the headlines

The writing is both literary and accessible, fast-paced, passionate, exuberant and heart-lurching. We’ll be hearing much more from Selma Dabbagh – Guardian

GENRE: FICTION Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a young, clever Palestinian – FORMAT: PAPERback ISBN: 9789992194683 has been smoking grass on the roof watching it happen PUB DATE: 13/08/2015 when he gets the e-mail he has been desperate for: he’s won RIGHTS: Arabic language a scholarship to London. Rashid’s sister, Iman, frustrated by the atrocities and inaction around her, is beginning to take an interest in an Islamic resistance group. Sabri, ‘Takes us, their intellectual older brother, is working on a history of observantly and Palestine from his wheelchair while their mother pickles deftly, into the lives vegetables and feuds with the neighbours. and feelings of those Out Of It follows the lives of Rashid and Iman as they try to who live in Gaza and forge places for themselves in the midst of occupation, the want ordinary lives.’ growing divide between Palestinian factions, and the rise of – Marina Warner, fundamentalism. Written with extraordinary humanity and Observer, Books of humour, and moving between Gaza, London and the Gulf, this book helps to re-define Palestine and its people. the Year

Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer based in London. Her short stories have been included anthologies published by Granta and International PEN. They have also been nominated for the International PEN David TK Wong Award and the Pushcart Prize. Out of It is her first novel. 36 ARABIC NEW RELEASES

Wa Raddadat Al-Jibal Al-Sada Khaled Hosseini Original Title: And the Mountains Echoed Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns • An Amazon best book of the month

GENRE: FICTION Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, FORMAT: PAPERback how we take care of one another, and how the choices we ISBN: 9789927101908 make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving PUB DATE: 13/8/2015 around not just parents and children but brothers and RIGHTS: Arabic language sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and ‘[Hosseini’s] most sacrifice one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. assured and emotionally gripping Following its characters and the ramifications of their story yet…’ lives and choices and loves around the globe – from Kabul – New York Times to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos – the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international best-seller, published in thirty-eight countries. He has been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in Northern California. 37 NEW RELEASES ARABIC

Arwah’ Kilimanjaro Ibrahim Nasrallah English Title: Kilimanjaro Spirit

• From an award-winning author, previously shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2009 • A much-loved best-selling author in the Arab world

Losing another is agony. But what about when you lose yourself?

A group of disparate individuals, each battling with their GENRE: FICTION own private loss, find themselves thrown together on a FORMAT: paperback mission to summit Kilimanjaro. Hailing from Palestine, ISBN: 9789927118418 Lebanon, Egypt and America, the characters test the limits of e-pub ISBN: 9789927118425 PUB DATE: 5/5/2016 their physical and emotional strength to prove to themselves RIGHTS: WORLD and others that they can transcend their strife-ridden histories and start a new, unburdened life.

Also available Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah in English p.25 is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and photographer. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro was the first to include participation of an Arab author and was in support of charity work for Palestinian and Arab 38 children in need of medical care. ARABIC NEW RELEASES

Limadha Tafshal Mu’dham Al Sharikat Al-Saghira Michael E. Gerber Original Title: The E-Myth Revisited Translation: Anwar Al Shamy

• Written by the World’s #1 Small Business Guru

An essential guide to success in small businesses GENRE: NON-FICTION In this long-running business best-seller, Michael Gerber FORMAT: PAPERback ISBN: 9789992194911 dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business PUB DATE: 5/11/2015 and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in RIGHTS: Arabic language the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature ‘Gerber loves to entrepreneurial perspective. He then shows how to apply the exhort people to lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a develop powerful franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working visions for their in your business. companies.’ – Fortune Magazine After you have read this book, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

Michael E. Gerber is the Founder of Michael E. Gerber Companies to help provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with the advice they need to build a business that works. The Michael E. Gerber Companies group is fast becoming the largest and most effective entrepreneurial development resource of its kind in the world. 39 NEW RELEASES ARABIC

Thiqah Ariel Dorfman Original Title: Konfidenz Translation: Saleh Almani

• Author’s first novel to be translated into Arabic • Translated by Saleh Almani, one of the best translators of Spanish-language literature in the Arab world

A passionate treatise on love, repression, and aesthetics

Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in GENRE: FICTION Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is FORMAT: PAPERback ISBN: 9789992195789 accused of working for the Resistance. PUB DATE: 5/11/2015 RIGHTS: Arabic language The novel follows nine hours of phone conversations between a woman and a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she fled ‘From the first page, her homeland. As the dialogue progresses, the man tells her this slim novel many disturbing things about her and her lover (who may invokes the menace be in great danger), the political situations in which they are of the former in enmeshed, and his fantasies about her.

order to underscore Powerful and menacing, Thiqah draws the reader into a post- and explore the modern mystery where nothing – including the text itself – vulnerability of the is what it seems. latter.’ – The New York Times, Sven Birkerts Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He has been a professor of Literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.

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43 23 H’AQIQA YUKHFOONAHA A’NKA BIKHOSOOS AL-RASMALIYYA HA-JOON CHANG A’DDA’ AL-TAIRA AL-WARAQIYYA KHALED HOSSEINI AL-SHIRA’ AL-MOQADDAS ABDULAZIZ AL-MAHMOUD ALFU SHAMSIN SATIA’A KHALED HUSSEINI BAYNAMA YANAM AL-A’LAM SUSAN ABULHAWA KAL MA’ LIL-SHUKULATA LAURA ESQUIVEL HIGHLIGHTS ARABIC

23 H’aqiqa Yukhfoonaha A’nka Bikhosoos Al-Rasmaliyya Ha-Joon Chang Original Title: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Translation: Mohamed Fathy Kalfat

GENRE: Non-Fiction • Award-winning author of Bad Samaritans FORMAT: paperback ISBN: 9789992194263 PUB DATE: 5/12/2013 One of today’s most iconoclastic thinkers destroys the RIGHTS: Arabic language biggest myths about the world we live in

This book will turn every piece of economic wisdom you’ve ‘Myth-busting and heard on its head. It reveals the truth behind what ‘they’ tell nicely-written you and how the system really works. There’s no such thing collection of essays.’ as a ‘free’ market. Globalization isn’t making the world richer. Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich – Independent ones. Higher paid managers don’t produce better results.

‘For anyone who This galvanizing, fact-packed book about money, equality, wants to understand freedom and greed proves that the free market isn’t just bad capitalism… as it for people – it’s an inefficient way of running economies too. Here Chang lays out the alternatives, and shows there’s actually operates, a better way. this book will be invaluable.’ Ha-Joon Chang has taught at the University of Cambridge – Observer since 1990. In addition to numerous articles in journals and edited volumes, he has published seven books and eight edited books. In 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. 44 His writings have been translated into thirteen languages. ARABIC HIGHLIGHTS

A’dda’ Al-Taira Al-Waraqiyya Khaled Hosseini Original Title: The Kite Runner Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini now officially available in Arabic • Was an Academy award-nominated film which grossed over $15 million at the US Box Office

Afghanistan in the 1970s: twelve-year-old Amir is desperate GENRE: FICTION FORMAT: paperback to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend ISBN: 9789992178966 Hassan promises to help him. What happens to Hassan that PUB DATE: 27/9/2012 afternoon will shatter their lives… RIGHTS: Arabic language

After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to ‘The Kite Runner is a find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: first novel of unusual redemption. generosity, honesty

Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has sold and compassion.’ 8 million copies worldwide. – Guardian

Al-Shira’ Al-Moqaddas Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

• Author is a much celebrated Qatari writer • In the vein of Clive Cussler, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and high treason • Historical fiction covering a neglected period of time and place in the world

In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf. In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist…

GENRE: FICTION Portugal, 1486. Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, FORMAT: paperback and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is ISBN: 9789927101700 still unchartered territory… e-pub ISBN: 9789927101687 PUB DATE: 11/11/2014 Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious RIGHTS: WORLD fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes ‘The author has are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the profitable spice trade. brilliantly established a dramatic structure Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous with great political historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, awareness… an while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah and Istanbul. The Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode excellent historical of history that impacted not only the region but the world for mind.’ centuries to come. – Al Jazeera

Also Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. available He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula in English p.9 newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. Abdulaziz has previously authored The Corsair, also a Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing title. 46 ARABIC HIGHLIGHTS

Alfu Shamsin Satia’a Khaled Hosseini Original Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns Translation: Ehab Abdel Hamid

• 75 weeks on the New York Times paperback fiction best-seller list

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

GENRE: FICTION Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry FORMAT: paperback Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows ISBN:9789992194065 between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the PUB DATE: 14/3/2013 RIGHTS: arabic language ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in ‘Hosseini’s unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. illuminating book [is] a worthy sequel to The sense of longing evoked in Khaled Hosseini’s novel is The Kite Runner.’ compelling and universal: the passionate search for love, – Los Angeles Times family, home, acceptance, a healthy society, and a promising future, regardless of the obstacles. This novel transcends boundaries and illuminates the people and culture of a ‘A masterful region that has been reluctantly thrust into the international narrative… He is a spotlight. storyteller of dizzying power.’ Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, – Evening Standard and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international best-seller, published in thirty-eight countries. He has been appointed a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in Northern California. 47 HIGHLIGHTS ARABIC

Baynama Yanam Al-A’lam Susan Abulhawa Original Title: Mornings in Jenin Translation: Samia Shanan Tamimi

• This is arguably the first commercial literary work from a Palestinian voice.

1948: The lives of the Abulheja family are changed forever when they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in GENRE: FICTION Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. FORMAT: paperback ISBN: 9789992142592 PUB DATE: 15/3/2012 Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, RIGHTS: Arabic language we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier; and the other, who as a result of sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause, becomes ‘Abulhawa’s writing his brother’s unwitting enemy. Amal’s own dramatic story shines… Friendship, weaves its way between these strands. adolescence, love: This is a moving and powerful novel that will have an ordinary events, enormous impact on all those who read it. offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live.’ – Independent

Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family’s land was seized. She moved to the USA as a teenager established a career in medical science. In July 2001, Susan Abulhawa founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organisation dedicated to upholding 48 The Right to Play for Palestinian children. ARABIC HIGHLIGHTS

Kal Ma’ Lil-Shukulata Laura Esquivel Original Title: Como Agua Para Chocolate Translation: Saleh Almani

• Has sold more than 4.5 million copies around the world and has been translated into 35 languages, available for the first time in Arabic • Remained on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year

GENRE: Fiction Earthy, magical and charming, a tale of family life in turn-of- FORMAT: paperback the-century Mexico ISBN: 9789992195543 PUB DATE: 6/11/2014 RIGHTS: Arabic language A highly original novel by one of Mexico’s most important storytellers, Like Water for Chocolate’s chapters each start with a traditional northern Mexican recipe. Cooking is ‘Utterly charming the exclusive means of expression open to the female protagonist, who doesn’t conform to the limited role that interpretation of both society and her family have given her. life in turn-of-the- century Mexico… (an) Tita is trapped in a destiny predetermined at birth: family exquisite first novel.’ tradition dictates that the youngest daughter must renounce – Publishers Weekly marriage and devote herself to the care of her mother. Tita, however, is passionately in love with Pedro, her eldest sister’s husband.

Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City. She began her career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim. The publication of her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate, in 1990 was one of the major literary landmarks of that decade. The film based on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel herself, won several prizes and was a box-office hit. 49 ARABIC COMING SOON

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Mushaton Yunadoon Ikhwatahom GENRE: poetry Ghassan Zaqtan PUB DATE: 24/9/2015 ISBN: 9789927118432 English Title: Passing By

• Composed by the winner of the prestigious Griffin Prize for Poetry 2013, the poems in this collection revolve around the competing forces of life and death.

Istajib in Daa’tka Aljibal GENRE: poetry Mohamed Ghozzi PUB DATE: 24/9/2015 ISBN: 9789927118449 English Title: Obey the Mountains

• A collection of poems with themes of loss and nostalgia, authored by one of the most highly-regarded poetic voices from Tunisia.

Kitab Alashya’ GENRE: poetry Hashem Shafiq PUB DATE: 24/9/2015 ISBN: 9789927118456 English Title: The Book of Things

• Written by a diasporic Iraqi poet, this work deals with the physical presence of everyday objects in our lives and the intensity they hold.

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