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May Menassa

مي منسى

Born 1939 · Lebanon

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    IPAF 2008 · Shortlist

    أنتعل الغبار وأمشي

    Anta'il al-ghubar wa-amshi

    Title translated by AI:“I Wear the Dust and Walk”

    May Menassa · 67 when first published

    Novel · 253 pages · War, Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:A girl who loses her mother and her voice when gunmen attack her Lebanese village grows up mute, and writes down in a secret notebook everything she cannot say.