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IPAF 2011 · Winner
The Arch and the Butterfly
القوس والفراشة · Al-Qaws wa-l-farasha
Mohammed Achaari · 59 when first published
Novel · 335 pages · Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:Youssef al-Firsiwi, a Moroccan journalist and former left-wing activist, receives an anonymous letter telling him that his son, sent to Paris to study architecture, has died a martyr in Afghanistan.