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The King of India

ملك الهند · Malik al-Hind

Jabbour Douaihy (جبور الدويهي, born 1949)

Translated by Paula Haydar

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Zakaria Mubarak returns to Tel Safra after years in Europe, America and Africa, bringing a Chagall painting from a lover in Paris, and days later is found dead at the village's edge. Suspicion falls on his cousins and on a treasure family lore says his grandmother hid under her house; the case opens onto feuding brothers and old sectarian hatreds.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Crime, Family (assigned by AI)
First published
2019 by Dar al-Saqi
Author's age
70 when first published
ISBN

9781623719074 (Interlink Books, United States)

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