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Book

The book censor's library

Call Number

  • FICTION ISA (CEN)

Edition

First Restless Books paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Restless Books, 2024.

Physical Description

261 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Summary

"The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture."--Amazon.

Notes

"First published as Ḥāris saṭḥ al-ʻālam by Takween Publishing House (Kuwait) and ASP Arabic (Beruit), 2019"--Title page verso.

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