That Smell and Notes from Prison by Sonallah Ibrahim, صنع الله إبراهيم, Robyn Creswell

110 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

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That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim’s modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential novels written in Arabic since WWII. Composed after a five-year term in prison, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner a...

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