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    persian

    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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    This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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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:  Philip Roth

    The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of racism and forced to resign. The story twists and turns with subtly complex characters against the backdrop of America in the 1940s. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Oscar Wilde

    The collection of five short stories, originally intended for children, written by Oscar Wilde and originally published in 1888.  Stories included are The Happy Prince; The Nightingale and the Rose; The Selfish Giant; The Devoted Friend; and The Young King.

    $14.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hoda Barakat

    Winner of the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel tells the stories of people in exile through their letters. Author Hoda Barakat is known for exploring the psychological effects of conflict and trauma in her works.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Iman Yehia

    Set in the early 1950s, this is a complex love story between an Egyptian man, Yehia and a Mexican girl named Ruth, who is the daughter of Diego Rivera, the famous mural painter. Longlisted for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mohammed Al-Maazuz

    Raheel, even though she is divorced, is determined to remain hopeful.  She resists depression through music, uses her new found freedom to play and sing as a way of sowing seeds of hope. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2019.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Witold Gombrowicz

    When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was promptly banned.  It has been translated into more than 20 languages, and the English translation won the 2001 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association. ...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Mo Yan

    Mo Yan's dramatic novel about the conflict among the Chinese government's one child policy, prospective parents, and Gugu, an abortionist and aunt of the story's narrator.  Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.

    $38.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Jack London

    American author, Jack London's novel about a wannabe writer and his frustrations with the publishing industry.  Originally published in 1909, it is believed to have been the inspiration for a whole generation of young writers who would attain their objectives through great struggle without aid or encouragement.

    $28.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hagar Peeters

    Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature 2016, the critically-acclaimed debut novel by Dutch poet, Hagar Peeters, is now available in Arabic. Reviewed as written in "lush, lyrical prose" it tells the story of Malva, the only child of Pablo Neruda who died at the age of 8 and is now a ghost in search for her father in the afterlife.

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Voltaire

     A new Arabic translation of Voltaire's satirical "magnum opus" about the human condition as seen through the eyes of Candide, a sheltered young man who becomes disillusioned with the world after he experiences many hardships.

    $26.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Haruki Murakami

    Haruki Murakami's novel about an unnamed protagonist, a freelance writer, who is divorced, bereaved, abandoned and lonely.  He returns to an old haunt from his past, the Dolphin Hotel, where he experiences visions that lead him to two mysteries: one metaphysical and one physical.  This story features all the hallmarks of Murakami's...

    $36.95
  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf's unconventional third novel tells the story of Jacob through the perceptions of the people, primarily women, around him.

    $26.95
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