Lit in Translation

تغريبة القافر

Taghribat al-Qafir

“The Exile of the Water Diviner” (title translated by AI)

Zahran Alqasmi (زهران القاسمي, born 1974)

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In a village in Oman, a water tracker is called on by villages to find springs hidden in the ground. Water has shaped his life since birth: he lost his mother to drowning, and his father died under the collapsed roof of a falaj channel. The story draws on the memory of the aflaj, the irrigation channels of Omani village life and the legends around them.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Nature (assigned by AI)
Set in
Oman
First published
2022 by Rashm
Author's age
48 when first published
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