Voices of the Lost

The novel is made of letters written by people who are lost like their letters: migrants, the displaced and the exiled, orphans of countries broken by the years. None of them has a name, and their homelands are never named. A man living illegally in France writes his only letter to the woman he loves. An anxious woman, wavering between illusion and reality, finds it and writes to a man she is waiting for. A troubled man picks up her letter and writes to his mother, as a painful confession. A woman who works as a maid writes to her brother about the hardness of her life. One letter leads to another, their fates cross, and the lines between victim and killer blur.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

126 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Dar al-Adab

Author's age

66 when first published

ISBN

9789953895673 (original)

9781786077226 (Oneworld Publications, United Kingdom)

9780300255263 (Yale University Press, United States)

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