Lit in Translation

غيبة مي

Ghaybat Mai

“Mai's Absence” (title translated by AI)

Najwa Barakat (نجوى بركات, born 1960)

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Past eighty and alone in a ninth-floor flat in Beirut, looked after by the concierge and her doctor while her sons live abroad, a woman hears a voice call her name one dawn, inside a flat locked behind two doors.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Set in
Lebanon
First published
2025 by Dar al-Adab
Author's age
65 when first published