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Planet of Clay

المشّاءة · Al-Mashsha'a

Samar Yazbek (سمر يزبك, born 1970)

Translated by Leri Price

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In English

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She never stops walking, hates speaking and calls the tongue a useless muscle; her mother ties her to her own wrist with a rope. Trading words for colours, she comes to see life as practice for dying, while meaning, her mother, her brother, her lover and her only pen slip away.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
War (assigned by AI)
Set in
Syria
First published
2017 by Dar al-Adab
Author's age
47 when first published
ISBN

9789953895352 (original)

9781642861013 (World Editions, United States)

9781912987238 (World Editions, United Kingdom)