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As You Read - What are you thinking about A Land Without Jasmine?
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By Cait · 20 posts · 4 views
last updated Aug 07, 2017 12:18PM
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This was the latest book in our book club that is reading its way around the world, and it's the one I think I've been most excited about so far. It was billed as a sexy mystery and after finishing I think it's an appropriate description, although not perhaps completely correct. A Land Without Jasmine to me is more of a Yemeni mystical realism (think Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Pan's Labrynth), filled with disappointing facts in real life that lead the protagonist into a magical realm of jinn, whe
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This is one of those books where you’re left speechless, and it’s hard to decide how to rate it or what exactly to say afterwards. It is a troubling, thought-provoking, graphic and sexually explicit critique of Yemeni society by a controversial author who was forced to flee from Yemen because of his work. As far as I can tell, it is Al-Ahdal’s only writing that has been translated into English.
The novella centers around an investigation concerning the disappearance of a beautiful and intelligent ...more
The novella centers around an investigation concerning the disappearance of a beautiful and intelligent ...more
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