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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:  Stacey Halls

    Rich and compelling, set against the frenzy of the real Pendle Hill Witch Trials, this novel explores the rights of 17th-century women and raises the question: Was witch-hunting really women-hunting? Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Alice Grey and the other characters are actual historical figures. King James I was obsessed with asserting power over the...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

    A Russian artist living in Sudan, who gathers a group of young Sudanese men around him and teaches them art at university. The human relationships between them are analyzed in the novel. The artist leaves Sudan, leaving his students to live their own story as they struggle with their environment and authority.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Patricia Highsmith

    The psychological thriller about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders. Originally published in 1950, it was adapted as a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Short Stories
    Author:  Naguib Mahfouz

    In this fantasy novel Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz weaves the story of Shahryar and Scheherezade in his own way. He mixes the worlds of humans and demons in a magical fabric of tales that incite philosophical contemplation and arouse astonishment.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Kristin Harmel

    Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young librarian with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this sweeping historical novel.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Rachid Boudjedra

    In 1950s Algeria, still scarred by anti-Semitic purges, the War of Independence plunged the country into violence and bloodshed. Witnessing this wreckage, the narrator recalls his childhood spent between Algiers and Constantine, where French troops paraded and killed.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Ahmad Zanati

    Winner of the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity 2016.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Louisa May Alcott

    The beloved coming-of-age novel was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. In keeping with the original, this Arabic translation is available in two volumes. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they grow to adulthood. 

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Hillary Rodham Clinton

    This high-stakes thriller follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Nora Abdelaziz

    A bereft lover uses the sword of love to win back the lost lover who has fallen captive to fear.

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels
    Author:  Robert Menasse

    A taut European political thriller brings together the maze of countries and institutions represented by the European Commission. The multilateral characters are a mix of tragic heroes, clever schemers, and involuntary accomplices all intricately woven together to reveal the absurdities and real dangers of a fiercely nationalistic European...

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Subject:  Novels, Historical fiction
    Author:  Amira Ghenim

    Relates an important, untold story from Tunisia’s contemporary history. Its hero is the historical figure, the reformer El-Taher El-Haddad. Although historical references do not mention anything about his relationship with women, except for his desperate defence of them, the author adds an imaginary love affair with a woman called Lella...

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