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ุนุฑุจูŠ

Stones of Bobello

Stones of Bobello

Edwar Al-Kharrat (Author)

Paul Starkey (Translator)

Fiction

Edition published in 2005 in English language
Set during the 1930s in the small town of Tarrana in the Nile Delta region of Egypt, Stones of Bobello revolves around the life of a sensitive young Christian boy.Its montage of nostalgic, psychological and mythical perspectives highlights various tensions โ€“ between man and woman, Copt and Muslim, dream and reality.The torpid climate of the Delta is the setting for this bewitching coming-of-age tale, charged with erotic fantasy and richly imbued with those imaginative oases where dreams and memories flourish.
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