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Ra'i grew up in an unnamed Jordanian village in a family of Bedouin origin. He reads constantly, and his overbearing father believes the books have made him an unbeliever and a failure. Poor and estranged from the conservative world he comes from, he teaches school in Amman and can only afford a windowless room in a poor district, where, he soon learns, the previous tenant, an old lottery-ticket seller, lay dead until neighbours noticed. The room mirrors his life: debts, drink, and questions about existence that none of his philosophy books can answer. Echoes of the Epic of Gilgamesh run beneath the story.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

318 pages in the original

Set in

Jordan

First published

2018 by Dar al-Adab

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9789953895567 (original)

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