History of Ash
An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, brutality, and resistance as told through the first-person prison narratives of a man and a woman History of Ash is a fictional prison account … continued
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A Stranger in Baghdad
LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this intergenerational drama set against a background of p … continued
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The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody
A “spare, well-crafted and compelling” (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expected, winner of the Naguib Mahfo … continued
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‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’— a 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize winner
On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by the award-winning novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, published by Hoopoe in 2022, is…
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‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’ shortlisted for 2022 Banipal Prize
The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Egyptian author Hamdi Abu Golayyel, translated by Humphrey Davies, is among the three shortlisted works for the 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Tra…
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November Hoopoe fiction give away
This month Hoopoe is offering you the chance to be one of the three lucky winners to receive a free copy of the gripping novel The Night Will Have Its Say by the International Booker Prize finalist Ib…
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