Lit in Translation

فوق رأسي سحابة

Fawqa ra'si sahaba

“A Cloud Above My Head” (title translated by AI)

Doaa Ibrahim (دعاء إبراهيم, born 1988)

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Noha tells her story from a cell. Her father walked out on her when she was small to wed a Japanese woman, and her mother went from one husband to the next, leaving her open to abuse at home. Working as a nurse, she ends the lives of her patients and of anyone who comes close to her. She flees to Japan, but cannot flee herself, and ends up in a Japanese prison.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
208 pages in the original
Genres
Crime, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Egypt, Japan
First published
2024 by Dar al-Ain
Author's age
36 when first published
ISBN

9789774907760 (original)