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النبيذة

Al-Nabidha

“The Outcast” (title translated by AI)

Inaam Kachachi (إنعام كجه جي, born 1952)

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Taj al-Muluk, a journalist close to the monarchy's prime minister and regent, leaves Baghdad for Karachi radio, where she loves her Palestinian colleague Mansour until they are parted; he ends up advising Hugo Chávez. In Paris she befriends Widyan, a young violinist deafened after an assault by the president's son, and the two women share the exile of a country that rejected them.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
325 pages in the original
Genres
Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
Iraq, Pakistan, France
First published
2017 by Dar al-Jadid
Author's age
65 when first published
ISBN

9789953111353 (original)

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