Lit in Translation

أيام الشمس المشرقة

Ayyam al-Shams al-Mushriqa

“Days of the Shining Sun” (title translated by AI)

Miral al-Tahawy (ميرال الطحاوي, born 1968)

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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