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Annie
Apr 06, 2013 rated it really liked it
For my Around the World challenge (Sudan).

Beautifully crafted short stories and novella from a village by the Nile, written by one of Sudan's greatest writers. Through Zein, the toothless but loveable village fool, the scheming but generous elders, and the other quirky villagers we get glimpses of "a world that was fast disappearing."
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