Stories From the Center of the World

✍ Scribed by Jordan Elgrably

• Book ID: 115186351
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 738 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780872869080

✦ Synopsis

One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring!

**Featured in Alta Magazine's Top Books for May!
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Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world.

"Provocative and subtle, nuanced and surprising, these stories demonstrate how this complicated and rich region might best be approached--through the power of literature."--Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Committed

Stories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the greater Middle East (or SWANA), a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia, through the Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included here come from a wide range of cultures and countries, including Palestine, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, and Morocco, to...