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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | Spring Fiction in Translation
Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, this latest from prolific Lebanese author Daoud (The Penguin's Song) opens dramatically with the imam of a small Lebanon town being diagnosed with cancer, something he had feared and expected for years. What follows is not, however, his frenzied leap into drinking up life to the very last drop, something fictio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
