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Tag: Middle East

Voices of the Lost – Hoda Barakat

On June 23, 2021July 17, 2021 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

Imagine if you could read all the unsent letters, all those that got lost or that were never meant to be sent. This book gives you a good sense of what would happen. A sense of what’s lost when we don’t communicate our thoughts, but also what may happen if we do. A book on …

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Exit West – Mohsin Hamid – Quotes

On July 29, 2020August 1, 2020 By bookskepticIn Quotes1 Comment

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. [...] with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we …

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Exit West – Mohsin Hamid

On July 27, 2020August 1, 2020 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. I'm still making my way through the shortlist of Man Booker Prize for 2017, which I got as a birthday …

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Jokes for the Gunmen – Mazen Maarouf

On August 24, 2019August 9, 2019 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

This is one of the books I picked up during my trip to Dubai in July. Given my destination, I decided to buy books from the Middle East. I admit I picked this one up as my next read because it was only 160 pages and I was behind on my 20 Books of Summer …

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