عنكبوت في القلب

Two people who live on the margins of life meet by chance and find themselves facing a fantastical world they have never known. Mervat loves spiders, stray cats and crocodiles more than anything; she knocks on her neighbours' doors offering to clean their walls, only to carry the spiders home and keep them safe in plastic jars, which she leaves open at night. Some chapters open with lines from the author's earlier poems, whose characters reappear here.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

218 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-'Amma lil-Kitab

Author's age

38 when first published