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IPAF 2017 · Shortlist
مقتل بائع الكتب
Maqtal ba'i' al-kutub
Title translated by AI:“The Killing of the Bookseller”
Saad Mohammed Raheem · 59 when first published
Novel · 216 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:Hired by a wealthy patron who keeps his name secret, the journalist Majid Baghdadi spends two months in Baqubah to write a book on the life and murder of Mahmoud al-Marzouq, a seventy-year-old bookseller and painter.