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Voices of the Lost
by Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth.
Oneworld, 197 pp., £12.99, February 2021,978 1 78607 722 6 Show More
by Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth.
Oneworld, 197 pp., £12.99, February 2021,
God 99
by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright.
Comma, 278 pp., £9.99, November 2020,978 1 905583 77 5 Show More
by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright.
Comma, 278 pp., £9.99, November 2020,
“... Two novels published in English last year reject the paradigm. The Lebanese author Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost came to attention after winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2019. It consists of five loosely intertwined narratives, related in haste by unnamed exiles from an unnamed Arabic country living in Europe (or ... ”
