Lit in Translation

Ibrahim Nasrallah

إبراهيم نصر الله

Born 1954 · Jordan

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    IPAF 2018 · Winner

    حرب الكلب الثانية

    Harb al-kalb al-thaniya

    Title translated by AI:“The Second War of the Dog”

    Ibrahim Nasrallah · 62 when first published

    Novel · 343 pages · Speculative, Satire, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Drawing on the fantastic and on science fiction, the story follows a man who once stood against the regime and becomes a corrupt extremist, in a society where greed has swept away every moral limit and even people's fates and souls are for sale.

  • In English

    IPAF 2009 · Shortlist

    Time of White Horses

    زمن الخيول البيضاء · Zaman al-khuyul al-bayda'

    Ibrahim Nasrallah · 53 when first published

    Novel · 634 pages · Historical, Family, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Following three generations of one family in a single Palestinian village, the novel traces Palestinian life from late Ottoman rule through the British Mandate to the Nakba of 1948.