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IPAF 2019 · Shortlist
شمس بيضاء باردة
Shams bayda' barida
Title translated by AI:“Cold White Sun”
Kafa Al-Zou'bi · 53 when first published
Novel · 318 pages
AI-generated summary:A poor, bookish young Jordanian of Bedouin stock, estranged from his conservative family, teaches in Amman and rents a squalid windowless room where its previous tenant, an old lottery-ticket seller, died unnoticed.