Hachette Antoine/Novel
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Land of happy conspiracies
Is it right to categorize people as purely good or purely evil? Is goodness an absolute value? Is poetry a flaw that begins with an irreversible slip? Should we sympathize with someone drowning, driven by a deep-seated desire to escape this trap, or should...- Dhs. 50.00
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sequins
In October 1898, German Emperor Wilhelm II embarked on a journey to the East. In Istanbul, he met with Sultan Abdul Hamid II and planned the construction of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway, aiming to immediately rival trade and the overland route to India. To keep...- Dhs. 50.00
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Turonian
How can a lover escape love, or a warrior escape war? He died without love, but without enemies, so neither war was his defense, nor love his injustice. As for her, that captivating woman who carries weapons in one hand and her heart in...- Dhs. 50.00
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Women's villa
Iskandar Hayek lived a comfortable and happy life. He was a prominent fabric merchant, the absolute master of his factory, his land, and his family, despite the clouds gathering over Lebanon in the mid-1960s, and the constant bickering between his fierce sister, Mado, his...- Dhs. 60.00
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Auch - Confused Memoirs
Having grown up in a well-known camp in Lebanon, Shaker Khazal set one mission as a red flag: to get out of the prison of displacement and take his rightful place in the world. This detailed account of his life takes you on a...- Dhs. 74.00
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Tala's story
Life and death. Victory and defeat. Hope and despair. In "Tala's Story," Henry, a renowned New York writer, tries to cope with his mother's sudden departure and the failure of his latest novel. His mother, whose life was filled with successes, is dead and...- Dhs. 74.00
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A woman who is unnecessary
Not much happens in Rabih Alameddine's new novel. There's no engaging plot, no whirlpools of characters getting lost, no story that captivates the reader. Literature itself is what unfolds in this novel. Literature imbued with a whole life, a ghost haunting a woman who...- Dhs. 78.00
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The vagabonds of Hierapolis
I know, Maria, that there's a child inside you, and that children fear bullets and cherish their mothers' breasts. But I know you have no hope but a few thousand unarmed souls to face all this sorrow. You love roses, but my garden no...- Dhs. 50.00
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Family Shadows
What does it mean to live in Jerusalem today, carrying the legacy of a tribe that abandoned the wilderness, as described in the previous two parts of Mahmoud Shuqair's trilogy: "The Family's Mare" and "In Praise of the Women of the Family"? The descendants...- Dhs. 50.00
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Attila the Last of the Lovers
While I was still pondering this oft-repeated saying, "No soul knows in what land it will die," I was lost in the mystery of the plot of land where Abu Saad was buried. Where was it? Would it bear a towering headstone, as is...- Dhs. 74.00
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Customs
My mother, lying on her bed, told me that she had been a stray cat forty years ago. She looked at me, and I sat with her. She added that she was perfectly suited to this day; and she remained on the ice she...- Dhs. 41.00
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Oxford Novel
In this new novel, a satirical tale set against the backdrop of a love story, a visiting Spanish lecturer delves deeply into the prestigious university and its community. A sense of alienation separates him from his new surroundings. A sense of unease prevents him...- Dhs. 60.00
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King's companion
I was born into a Shakespearean family, with a father who served the king for forty years and a brother banished to one of his prisons. Imagine a terrifying, oppressive palace where the most loyal are punished, and where jealousy reigns supreme. His Highness...- Dhs. 47.00
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Tachycardia
I recall, with a sense of bewilderment, what Abdel-Azim Shodak, the lame, nearly deaf mechanic, did. He was once found inside the ward, his skin reeking of grease and old oils. He wore thin-lensed reading glasses, followed everywhere, and a heavy medical bandage around...- Dhs. 55.00
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Snail isolation
Reham informed me, after arriving in the town, in a garbled phone call, that she had found the remains of the marble headstone bearing her father's name, but that she had not yet located the official burial site. She said she would not return...- Dhs. 50.00
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free fall
Some have owned their lives since birth. A stable, resilient life, in homes where tranquility dwells. And some inhabit houses of paper, fragile, unstable, uprooted by a breeze. Yasmina was stripped bare by the tattered remnants of her story when the storm came. She...- Dhs. 37.00
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Barrier for Leken
In war, identities are lost. You may acquire a new identity by decision, or an identity may be imposed on you because of a mere mistake. She may be a veiled woman burdened by the authority of a patriarchal husband, strict religious control, and...- Dhs. 60.00
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Madness on the loose
In the heart of a country engulfed in war and violence, a small group wages its own private war. The setting: a psychiatric hospital. The time: a lull between two battles. The protagonists: a film crew, a group of corrupt individuals, a criminal on...- Dhs. 47.00
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bed on the front
He is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, in a building that is no longer ordinary, having been occupied by the military and transformed into a security site. His experience of this building unfolds in a series of scenes, a dark comedy. Faced...- Dhs. 55.00
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The writer's secret life
In 1999, three months after the ineffective radioactive fallout, novelist Nathan Fowles announced his retirement and retreated to the chosen Belgian island of Beaumont in search of peace. In the fall of 2018, journalist Mathilde Monnier breaks free from the author's seclusion, driven by...- Dhs. 74.00
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The girl and the night
A university campus under the grip of a blizzard. A secret brings them together. A young woman snatched away by the night. Côte d'Azur, Winter 1992: On a bitterly cold night, amidst the raging snowstorms that disrupted campus life, 99-year-old Vinca Rockwell, a prostitute...- Dhs. 74.00
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2003 - Novel
America entered Iraq. The war began. Saddam Hussein went into hiding, orchestrating events behind the scenes. But he would suddenly appear in the middle of the night at a dentist's office, complaining of a toothache. From the window overlooking Firdos Square, he would witness...- Dhs. 40.00
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Reem
What kind of ending is this for a novel searching for a beginning? This is where this novel should have started, but the beginning was delayed more than once, and the ending came more than once. It is a novel about a woman of...- Dhs. 47.00
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Unfinished Works by Kevork Kasarian
On the first Thursday of 1981, a large shell accidentally struck Kevork's house, causing a fire that consumed its entire contents. Inside the dilapidated house, which he returned to inspect days later, Kevork realized he had lost everything. He had lost all his possessions:...- Dhs. 40.00
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Beggars of Immortality
Balqis, Youssef, Walid, Ghassan. Four characters, four faces. Four questions about meaning. And four yellow ones trying to confront the muscle of existence. Youssef the poet escapes his existence into a perfected image, a weapon he doesn't intend. Walid the rebel fights to escape...- Dhs. 50.00
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burden of time
Samia glanced at her watch: half past two. Strange, it wasn't like Nabil to be late without telling her. She had barely finished her thought when the doorbell rang. She rushed to the door. It was Suha. "Did Aunt Aziza bring you?" Samia asked,...- Dhs. 38.00
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Noah's descendants
Shams, an elderly artist, lost his painting hand in the 2005 bombing that targeted the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killing him. As a child, he lived in Cuba. As a teenager, he lived with his mother in her native Lebanon,...- Dhs. 50.00
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Land of the Danakil
The life of Shanuq, this strange, enigmatic man, unfolds before us through the women in his life. Through them, the novel explores key moments in Yemeni history, particularly those preceding unification. From the time of Saleh's alliance with the al-Baidh group in the north...- Dhs. 50.00
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Zaidi Fort
In the late Zaidi Imamate period in Sana'a, coinciding with the British occupation of Aden, an alliance formed between Yemeni tribal sheikhs and certain religious scholars led to the domination of a vulnerable populace, including another marginalized group known as "Akhdam" or "slaves." Some...- Dhs. 50.00
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Thorn perfume
Here are women who wage passive battles for survival every day. They pay with their own flesh the price of a heavy legacy of pervasive social values, and they pay with their lives the bills entirely built on the premise that their existence is...- Dhs. 60.00
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