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Mona El-Shimi

منى الشيمي

Born 1968 · Egypt

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    Sawiris 2014 · Winner

    بحجم حبة عنب

    Bi-hajm habbat 'inab

    Title translated by AI:“The Size of a Grape”

    Mona El-Shimi · 46 when first published

    Novel · 384 pages

    AI-generated summary:During Ramadan in the summer of 2012, a mother brings her fifteen-year-old son to a Cairo hospital after a tumor the size of a grape is found in his brain.