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Earnest, grave, contemporary and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Leila Aboulela
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Bloomsbury, Grove Press, Black Cat
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802170149
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First sentence
“'Omar, are you awake?' I shook his arm that lay across his face, covering his eyes.”
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