Lit in Translation

What Have You Left Behind?

ماذا تركتَ وراءك؟ · Madha tarakta wara'ak?

Bushra al-Maqtari (بشرى المقطري, born 1979)

Translated by Sawad Hussain

English editions

In English

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Survivors of Yemen's war, people who have lost relatives and homes, bear witness to the dead and to the destruction they lived through, in testimonies gathered so that a forgotten war and its victims are not erased.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
446 pages in the original
Genres
War, Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
Yemen
First published
2018 by Riad El-Rayyes Books
Author's age
39 when first published
ISBN

9789953216904 (original)

9781804270011 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)