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Availability:In StockContributor:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, William Tamplin (Translator), Bashir Abu-Manneh (Foreword by)Publish date:9/15/2025Pages:194
Language:EnglishPublisher:Darf PublishersISBN-13:9781850773566ISBN-10:1850773564UPC:9781850773566Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, DystopianBook Topic:Middle EastSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCKMEZAK2Y

In The Other Rooms, acclaimed Palestinian-Iraqi writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra crafts a haunting modernist tale set in an unnamed city where nothing is what it seems. When an unnamed man is whisked from an empty city square into a nightmarish compound, he is plunged into a world of shadowy rooms, shifting identities, erotic entanglements, and elusive truths. As he is forced to lecture on a book he never wrote and assume names he doesn't recognize, the boundaries between reality and illusion collapse.

Written during the darkest years of Iraq's authoritarian era, The Other Rooms is a gripping allegory of state surveillance, intellectual repression, and the psychological toll of life under tyranny. With echoes of Kafka and Beckett, this is Jabra at his most experimental and unflinching-a visionary work of Arabic modernism that resonates powerfully today.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Darf PublishersISBN-13:9781850773566ISBN-10:1850773564UPC:9781850773566Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World Literature, DystopianBook Topic:Middle EastSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCKMEZAK2Y
Publisher: Darf Publishers

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