- International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010 · Shortlist
A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore
يوم غائم في البر الغربي · Yawm gha'im fi al-barr al-gharbi
Mohamed Mansi Qandil (محمد المنسي قنديل, born 1946)
Translated by Barbara Romaine
English editions
In EnglishA Cloudy Day on the Western Shore
Syracuse University Press · United States · October 2018 · Paperback · 392 pages
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Fleeing a violent husband, a mother changes her small daughter's name and leaves her at a convent in Asyut; the girl grows up to be a translator in the Egypt of great archaeological finds and nationalist struggle.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 571 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Egypt
- First published
- 2009 by Dar al-Shorouk
- Author's age
- 63 when first published
- ISBN
9789770920497 (original)
9780815611097 (Syracuse University Press, United States)
- More
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