- International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012 · Shortlist
العاطل
al-'Atil
“The Unemployed” (title translated by AI)
Nasser Iraq (ناصر عراق, born 1961)
English editions
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An educated young Egyptian from a modest family finds no work in Cairo and leaves for Dubai, where a world of new people and nationalities opens up to him, along with the kindness and meanness of friends and relatives.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 335 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates
- First published
- 2011 by Al-Dar al-Masriya al-Lubnaniya
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- More
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