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Fiction

Fiction

Adult fiction including novels, short stories, and science fiction in all of Sawa's world languages

Fiction  

  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Nizar Abdul Sattar

    In early 1850, the steamer 'Clive', coming from Bombay, abandoned five chests of tea in the port of Basra, where Admiral Lancaster was serving his sentence of exile. The policy of promoting tea begins in parallel with a series of assassinations of Dutch coffee dealers, until tea became the number one drink in southern Iraq. This novel is...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Nasser Iraq

    The novel transports us to nineteenth-century Cairo and the Antikkhana, the first museum founded in Egypt in the time of the Khedive Ismail (1863-1879). The narrative unfolds through the eyes of four main characters. One is Ramadan al-Mahmadi, an Egyptian carpenter who lures housemaids with promises of marriage into stealing artefacts...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Maguib Mahfouz

    An epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the  al-Nagi family -- a family that  moves, over many generations, from the height of power  and glory to the depths of decadence and decay.  This new edition with re-designed cover is part of a special project to embrace, celebrate, and honor the...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Miral al-Tahawy

    The events of this novel are sandwiched between the suicide of Jamal, a young man torn between different identities, in the opening pages, and the suicide of Mimi, an African girl who has survived a massacre in her country, at the end of the novel. They take place in an imagined small town called Shining Sun on the southwestern border...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt. Against this backdrop, Mahfouz’s novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s colorful and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rabia Raihane

    The novel is set in Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century. Farida relates memories of her childhood and growing up in ‘the family house’ built by her grandfather Kabour, a strong, brave and chivalrous man.  Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmed El-Fakharany

    In this satirical novel, the protagonist Nuh Al-Rahimi resorts to trickery to gain admittance to Bar Lialina, frequented by the cultural elite. He hopes that through emulating them, he will discover what makes them so intelligent, while he by contrast is an ignoramus with inferior creative ability. When his ruse is discovered, he is cruelly...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  May Telmissany

    With a quiet humor, this novel gets under the skin of five middle-aged, middle class Arab intellectuals living in Canada and America, following the twists and turns of their love lives as they question their choices in life and reflect on (un)faithfulness in romantic relationships. Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Abdulatif

    A dystopic allegory about the apocalypse, set in a nameless city of threads, or dolls, which might be a macabre projection of Cairo. The novel has a unique narrative and linguistic style, with frequent repeated refrains and a lack of punctuation when one of the characters speaks, reinforcing its uncanny, nightmarish quality. Longlisted for...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Sausan Jamil Hasan

    The novel explores Arab moral double standards which make the individual, women in particular, wear a false face and live as spectators of their own lives rather than autonomous players in them. The two names of the heroine of the novel (Jahida/Zayzafoune) serve to highlight these double standards. After a watershed moment in her life when she...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  James Joyce

    A collection of short stories that present a vivid and unflinching portrait of life in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Matt Haig

    A love story across the ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

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