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The Grub Hunter

صائد اليرقات · Sa'id al-yaraqat

Amir Tag Elsir (أمير تاج السر, born 1960)

Translated by William M. Hutchins

English editions

In English

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Abdallah Harfash, an intelligence agent, loses a leg in an accident and is pensioned off, only to find that to others he was nothing but his job. Lonely and idle, he decides to write a novel from his years of spying on other people's lives, but all that comes to him are reports and yellowed files. So he starts visiting the café of writers he once watched, and befriends a famous author there.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
148 pages in the original
Genres
Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)
First published
2010 by Thaqafa lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi' and Manshurat al-Ikhtilaf
Author's age
50 when first published
ISBN

9789948446132 (original)

9780435134808 (Heinemann, United Kingdom)

9781035900657 (Head of Zeus, United Kingdom)

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