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A Calamity of Noble Houses

نازلة دار الأكابر · Nazilat Dar al-Akabir

Amira Ghenim (أميرة غنيم, born 1978)

Translated by Miled Faiza, Karen McNeil

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A novel that imagines a love between the Tunisian reformer Tahar Haddad and a woman named Lella Zbaida, and lets women narrators tell a hidden chapter of the country's modern history.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Historical, Love (assigned by AI)
Set in
Tunisia
First published
2020 by Dar Mesaa
Author's age
42 when first published
ISBN

9798889660507 (Europa Editions, United States)

9781787705586 (Europa Editions, United Kingdom)

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