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دلشاد: سيرة الجوع والشبع
Dilshad: Sirat al-Ju wa-l-Shiba
Title translated by AI:“Dilshad: A Life of Hunger and Plenty”
Bushra Khalfan · 52 when first published
Novel · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:In Muscat in the first half of the twentieth century, Dilshad, a boy of unknown parentage, grows up poor in a Baloch quarter; years later, blind and desperate, he sends his daughter Maryam to work in a merchant's house.