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أيام الشمس المشرقة
Ayyam al-Shams al-Mushriqa
“Days of the Shining Sun” (title translated by AI)
Miral al-Tahawy (ميرال الطحاوي, born 1968)
English editions
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Shining Sun is an imaginary town on America's southwestern border, where workers and migrants are smuggled ashore every day. The story opens as Jamal, a youth split between identities, takes his own life, and follows a marginalised group whom everyone wrongly takes for the lucky survivors, giving a voice to strangers who rebel against their new reality yet find ways to endure it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2022 by Dar al-Ain
- Author's age
- 54 when first published