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غيبة مي
Ghaybat Mai
Title translated by AI:“Mai's Absence”
Najwa Barakat · 65 when first published
Novel
AI-generated summary:Past eighty and alone in a ninth-floor flat in Beirut, looked after by the concierge and her doctor while her sons live abroad, a woman hears a voice call her name one dawn, inside a flat locked behind two doors.