Häftad, Engelska, 2026
Garden We Carry
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Beskrivning
When Rashid and his sister Rayya leave their mountain village, they carry little with them—only what necessity allows. What they leave behind does not loosen its hold.In Muscat, the world rearranges itself. Land gives way to labour, and kinship to survival. What once sustained them now belongs to others.The Garden We Carry is a novel of displacement without spectacle. Refusing drama in favour of accumulation, it traces the slow transformation of a life once rooted in land into one governed by work, hierarchy, and power.With remarkable restraint, Bushra Khalfan renders a world in which dignity is tested not through crisis, but through endurance—and where freedom is not lost all at once, but gradually, almost imperceptibly.This is a novel about what remains when everything else has been taken—and what must be carried forward.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-07
- Mått: 129 x 198 x 27 mm
- Vikt: 330 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Förlag: Dar Arab
- ISBN: 9781788711074
- Översättare: Luke Leafgren
- Utmärkelser: Bushra Khalfan evokes a world where landscape shapes human lives. With psychological depth and quiet precision, the novel renders historical change through everyday experience, carried into English with clarity and control by Luke Leafgren.
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Bushra Khalfan is an Omani novelist and short-story writer whose work explores the social and historical textures of Omani life. Marked by formal restraint and psychological depth, her fiction attends closely to questions of land, labour, and belonging. The Garden We Carry is translated by Luke Leafgren, an award-winning translator of Arabic literature into English, known for bringing clarity, precision, and literary sensitivity to contemporary Arabic fiction.
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