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The Bookseller's Notebooks
دفاتر الورّاق · Dafatir al-Warraq
Jalal Barjas · 50 when first published
Novel · 324 pages
AI-generated summary:Ibrahim, a well-read bookseller, slips into the identities of characters from the novels he loves; lonely and mistreated, he sinks into mental illness until he meets a woman who changes his fate.