Lit in Translation

الاشتياق إلى الجارة

Al-Ishtiyaq ila al-Jara

“Longing for the Woman Next Door” (title translated by AI)

Habib Selmi (الحبيب السالمي, born 1951)

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A sixty-year-old Tunisian, well educated and with a foreign wife, and a younger Tunisian woman of modest background in the same building drift from his guarded condescension into an unusual relationship.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Love (assigned by AI)
First published
2020 by Dar al-Adab
Author's age
69 when first published
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