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The Land of Speech

By ممدوح عزام

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2018

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During the Syrian–Egyptian union, villagers in drought-stricken southern Syria petition the authorities for a public library. Officials cannot understand why people facing hunger would ask for paper rather than bread. Beginning with the request and circling towards the library’s mysterious disappearance, Mamduh Azzam lets stories generate one another until they form a larger narrative about the desire for knowledge and imagination. The novel turns a village library into a quietly subversive promise of another future.

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