No English yet
Sawiris 2020 · Shortlist
غيوم فرنسية
Ghuyum faransiyya
Title translated by AI:“French Clouds”
Doha Assy · 49 when first published
Novel · 287 pages
AI-generated summary:Cairo under the French occupation, around 1800: when rebels storm the Christian quarter of Azbakiyya, a man named Yaqub hits on an unlikely way to stop a massacre: the buffalo of the oil presses.