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International Prize for Arabic Fiction こくさいあらぶしょうせつしょう

Edition 9 (2016)

FictionArabic literatureInternational literary award

Winners

1 people
Rabai al-Madhoun らばい ある まどぅーん Winner

A novel that juxtaposes the Holocaust and the Nakba to ask about memory, trauma, and the possibility of reconciliation. It moves across multiple perspectives and revisits history from within.

It places two tragedies in dialogue to rethink memory and reconciliation.

257 pages
historymemoryHolocaustNakbareconciliation