Hachette Antoine/Novel
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Zainab Well
Happy Yemen is no longer happy. But the stagnant waters have stirred, even if they have become whirlpools. Films have awakened after a long slumber, regaining their fervent spirit, and others have been released, pulsating with a joy that once again stirs me in...- Dhs. 50.00
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door threshold
Pain has its threshold. Madness has its threshold. Love and homelands have their thresholds. And happiness is playful. Don't Egyptians believe in "changing the threshold" to rid themselves of bad luck and misery? The threshold... vast is that which separates two worlds, and the...- Dhs. 32.00
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deaf moles
This novel is about the moles who live among us, each in their own burrow of affliction. The girl wronged by her family, deceived by her lover, and rejected by her society. Her daughter, the fruit of that cursed love. The young man who...- Dhs. 50.00
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Margaret Albay's face
The face of absence is ugly. Margaret is gone, leaving only a photograph. Illness took her one morning, and she never returned. Faced with the tragedy of departure, all that remains is a wall against which to bang your head until it bleeds. You...- Dhs. 50.00
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The sky escapes every day
Everyone is running. Men and women, lovers, the happy, the miserable, the hesitant—they are all running. They quicken their pace, never looking back. I am a worn wooden pew in a Chicago church, so isolated, that I have been numbed by the weight of...- Dhs. 50.00
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Paradise is more beautiful than a distant view.
We apologize in advance to the readers of this collection for not beginning to read this novel. We apologize that this wretched novel is not for general audiences. The writer here is capricious. She decided not to finish and didn't leave her character in...- Dhs. 50.00
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The White Tent
I will crush the candy pieces endlessly I will grind it into colored flour on the earth So that the cigarettes mix with rainwater He was once in Sukariyya I will mix them like clay to make "White" is an accurate term. This is...- Dhs. 50.00
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Juliana
Juliana is not a woman for everyone, nor simply a saint. She is a city. She is conscience. She is the silent force that speaks when it must, carefully choosing whom to address. It is enough to touch her grave, to caress her spirit,...- Dhs. 50.00
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Organized death
We finally reunited after six years of bloody suffering, loss, displacement, humiliation, begging, deprivation, homelessness, and death. Port Said became our home. I married five years later and had four children. Suddenly, I found myself very much alive. In the blink of an eye,...- Dhs. 47.00
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The Abyss
The Lebanese Civil War is over on the ground, but it still rages on in young Suhail's mind. There, events, scenes, and time blur together, and wonderful things exist in stark contrast: the complex interplay of love and hate towards his older brother; his...- Dhs. 41.00
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A house floating on the river
A girl with hair as black as the river, slipping with long waters, disturbs Layla's dreams, at the same time as her husband Benjamin left their marital home in Tehran. Layla had fled Beirut in search of love, far from the curse that has...- Dhs. 50.00
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The Regret Test
In wars, the days become indistinguishable. There will be a flaw in its bullet. Every day becomes a Dubai lived in extra time. You forget that in reality, to meet the needs of others, you bury your loneliness in the café, in fleeting stories,...- Dhs. 50.00
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Kingdom of the Concubines
In the late 5th century AH, amidst the raging sectarian conflicts between the emirates of southern Arabia, and within a harsh patriarchal environment, a woman ruled the region of Jibla for over 50 years without a male guardian, relying on the pillars of the...- Dhs. 50.00
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panda
Fifteen years ago, his father died. He killed himself with a gun he had once bought for self-defense, not to kill himself. The bullet pierced his heart, taking him from a life that had astonished him with all its wonder, and which had astonished...- Dhs. 41.00
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Warning
The truly unfortunate are those who chase after illusions. They are the ones who always lose their way in their pursuit. And that's what it means at the end of the tunnel: a mirage of illusion, not a glimmer of hope as they believe....- Dhs. 50.00
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Salem Street
Salem Street is a homeland. Stolen and reclaimed, a style owned by those who struggled for it. In truth, it is not yet a homeland. It is a dream, like all our homelands. It has forgotten heroes and unknown soldiers. It has rebels and...- Dhs. 60.00
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veiled woman
I am waiting. My life is arranged for everyone, like a house no one lives in. I wait for night to sleep and for morning to go to prison. I wait for nine o'clock to start at my office, and when I return, I...- Dhs. 50.00
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phonograph
Writing sought answers. A bouquet of questions hinting at the beautiful ambiguities that permeate everything within you. Writing is an act of purification, or an act of revenge for memory. The important thing was that it was a cry. The protagonist of "Phonograph" continues...- Dhs. 50.00
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loss
He began to think about his days, which had followed one another endlessly, monotonously, and boringly. A mix of things: listening to music, watching a Toyota TV, but these things couldn't replace a living human being. Someone to talk to, agree with, or disagree...- Dhs. 47.00
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Two women
Veronica: Born 1546, Venice. Courtesan and courtesan of kings in the Italian Imperial era of the sixteenth century. Kara: Born in 1980, Beirut. A university professor specializing in religious sciences, conservative, with a complex about holiness, and a special fondness for metaphysics. Do not...- Dhs. 58.00
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Screen thief
Thaer takes advantage of the crowd's distraction and sneaks into a shop. He finds nothing there to steal except an old television. But that's not the worst of it, as the men arrest him, even though they're looking for protesters, not thieves. For some...- Dhs. 37.00
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More shades
I am faceless, afraid to smile. This place is a confession of my awareness, and the walls around me hold no meaning other than the limits of my movement. I spin around myself, delving into my depths, summoning the furthest reaches of my past,...- Dhs. 47.00
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Havana has no god
Castro's regime is crumbling, and Teren Fuego still sings his Havana anthems. His voice has always ignited the golden masses and fueled the flame of hope in their hearts. But everything around him has changed. The time has come for the master of rumba...- Dhs. 63.00
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Khalil
To be a suicide bomber for the sake of luck. To put yourself in his place and time. To attempt to craft words from the very core of his thoughts and poetry. To neither do him justice, nor justify him, nor sympathize with him....- Dhs. 74.00
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Death has polluted eyes
September is returning, and you are not here to welcome it. Longing, Sawsan... I never knew longing was a fatal disease. All my wounds can be stitched with the sutures of forgetfulness, except for your loss. This wound will only widen with each remembrance...- Dhs. 60.00
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Flowers of ruin
I sat on the terrace of a café, not overlooking the Charletti amphitheater, pondering the possibility of Philippe De Pacheco, whose face I never saw. I was jotting down notes, and without realizing it, I was fully aware of what I was doing: I...- Dhs. 47.00
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Festival Hotel
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a city nestled on the shoulder of a shore, a city that embraced the dreams of its inhabitants. In cosmopolitan Nari, Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived in peace, drinking from the same spring, and...- Dhs. 74.00
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Sultana of Cairo
A child with emerald eyes, kidnapped from the Caucasian steppes, was sold into slavery to live as a concubine in the harem of the Emir of Baghdad. She radiated passion and allure. A woman who led the Egyptian army amidst the chaos, displaying her...- Dhs. 68.00
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Lost battles
Lost Battles — Fathers have one color, sons many. Fathers have their bicycles and their slow days, sons have the rest of the colors and the future that races ahead of them. From the walls of the family to the walls of the city,...- Dhs. 47.00
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Winter holidays
There is one positive aspect to leaving. Shedding one's skin can be worthwhile, despite the scars that fester in the soul. On the occasion of leaving, we become a charity event. We wear the skin of who we dreamed of being, or who hosts...- Dhs. 41.00
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