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Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize, this novel traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent. Part allegory, part magical realism, the novel is threaded with aspects of Egyptian antiquity, including accounts of the excavations of ancient Egyptian relics and the tortured jealousies that accompanied them.

A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore

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    A Paperback / softback by Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Barbara Romaine

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      Publisher Syracuse University Press
      Published 30 October 2018
      ISBN-13 9780815611097
      978-0815611097
      ISBN-10 0815611099

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Prize, this novel traces the turbulent life of Aisha, an Egyptian girl raised in a Christian convent. Part allegory, part magical realism, the novel is threaded with aspects of Egyptian antiquity, including accounts of the excavations of ancient Egyptian relics and the tortured jealousies that accompanied them.

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