Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Books on prize lists

• The Other Half of You

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2022 · Shortlist

  The Other Half of You

  The Other Half of You

  Michael Mohammed Ahmad

  Novel · Love, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:Raised to wed a suitable girl, Bani Adam, the first of his Western Sydney Muslim family to study at university, later writes to his son about the choices others made for him and those he made himself.

• The Lebs

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2019 · Shortlist

  The Lebs

  The Lebs

  Michael Mohammed Ahmad

  Novel · Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:At Punchbowl Boys High in western Sydney, Bani Adam, a Lebanese Australian teenager with romantic dreams, feels out of place among the classmates who rule the school and seem not to care about anything.