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Review: The Book Smuggler, an award-winning novel by Saudi author Omaima Al-Khamis
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From a distant village in the Arabian Desert all the way to Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada and Cordoba, such was the route of Mazid Al-Hanafi, an 11th century bookseller and chief protagonist of
The Book Smuggler
, a 2018 award-winning novel by Saudi writer Omaima Al-Khamis.
At a time when fundamentalism was on the rise, eventually halting the intellectual renaissance that flourished in medieval Islamic cities, Mazid Al-Hanafi joins a secret society that saves books from the danger of burning by disseminating them across Islamic cities. The novel follows Al-Hanafi’s thrilling journey across these capitals.
Upon its release, the novel, originally written in Arabic, garnered much critical acclaim. It scooped the 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and was also long listed for the International Prize for Arab Fiction in 2019.
CHICAGO: Rasha Adly’s first novel to be translated into English, “The Girl with Braided Hair,” is an extraordinary journey, where lives intersect in an ancient city, hundreds of years apart.
Cairo feels as old as time in Adly’s novel, translated by Sarah Enany, where her main character, Yasmine, an art-historian and professor, finds herself restoring a painting of an Egypt long-forgotten: A painting of a beautiful young Egyptian girl, Zeinab. The young girl wears traditional clothes but has a lace scarf on her shoulder, not something Egyptian women wore at the time. So how did this girl come to have a European scarf, and who was she? The mystery transports Yasmine to two-hundred years earlier, during the French Campaign of Egypt where life and futures are undetermined unless one is cunning and powerful.Mysteries concealed within the picture transport Yasmine to two-hundred years earlier, during the French campaign in Egypt, where life and prosperity belong to the cunning and