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The Russian Quarter is a neighborhood that refuses to enter the war going on around it. When they finally get involved they use stories as weapons. A grand menagerie of characters make up these stories including a giraffe from the zoo, a female Afghan hound, and a sparrow made of wool. Humans include a French teacher, a translator who lives in the zoo, a former player from the cabaret and more.
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When members of the Jewish minority in Tunis flee to France to avoid the Germans, they hide their historical documents in the ground below the Turkish bath (hammam). Years later, one of the Jewish descendents embarks on a journey to to discover her roots and returns to Tunis. As she begins her research, she learns the legend of the hammam that tells how the floor gave way, revealing a treasure of gold."--
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In mysterious circumstances, the body of Zakaria Mubarak is found at the boundary of his village, Tel Safra in Lebanon. He had just returned from a long exile in Europe, the USA, and Africa, carrying with him a painting by Marc Chagall, the “Blue Violinist,” a gift from his girlfriend in Paris. Suspicion falls on the cousins who may have killed him to get a treasure supposedly buried underneath the house built by their grandmother when she came...
11) Mūsīqá al-ḥurūf
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Arabic
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As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy uses the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.
20) Salālim trūlār
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Arabic
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A daring and prophetic novel which re-imagines the political history of Algeria - and through it Arab history as a whole - in a satirical style, using fantastical elements to simulate reality. It follows the intersecting lives of different characters, according to the possible scenarios ordained for them by fate. The novel is set in the Algerian capital, whose story we read through that of Jamal Humaidi, his former wife Olga and others. Their stories...
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