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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
    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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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  David Yoon

    Frank Li has two names -- on American and one Korean. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California. Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem, since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit Means....

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Philip Roth

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Seymour "Swede" Levov, a former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory who finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father's world.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Anatole France

    Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes him from Paris to Sicily and then into his own life history. For the sake of justice and love, he ends up committing acts that at best are of doubtful legality. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Pearl S. Buck

    Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Laura Restrepo

    A gripping detective story and devastating tale of love and insanity by the award-winning Colombian author, Laura Restrepo.

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