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روائح المدينة

Rawa'ih al-madina

“Scents of the City” (title translated by AI)

Hussein al-Wad (حسين الواد, born 1948)

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A narrator wanders through a Tunisian city by its smells, from jasmine and spices to rubbish heaps, and follows how they change over the decades along with the city itself.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
361 pages in the original
Set in
Tunisia
First published
2010 by Dar al-Janub
Author's age
62 when first published
ISBN

9789938010213 (original)

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