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Blogs in April 2020

Lion’s Bride 20th April 2020

A sizzling novel of passion, peril, and searing sensuality from “a master among master storytellers” (Affaire de Coeur)–a magical weaver of spellbinding tales, enticing characters, and unforgettable romance. The darkly handsome warrior found her in the hot desert night,...

Death of a Monk 20th April 2020

Damascus 1840. Aslan Farhi’s quiet, sheltered life is turned upside down when his brutish father, a wealthy businessman, decides he should wed. Aslan finds the wedding a painful ordeal, lightened only by the presence of the exotic dancer, Umm-Jihan,...

The Crane 20th April 2020

In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences...

They Know Not What They Do 19th April 2020

Family dysfunction, digital technologies and animal rights activism in Helsinki and Baltimore. Winner of the Finlandia Prize in 2014.

Cinnamon 18th April 2020

In the dark of night, Hanan al-Hashimi awakens from a nightmare, confused and shaken. Roaming the house in search of some reassurance, she is drawn towards the streak of light visible beneath her husband s bedroom door. The beckoning...