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Cry in a Long Night - Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim, and Tamplin, William (Translated by)
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Cry in a Long Night opens with Amin Samaa, a young man, walking the length of his native city on a stormy night. He is on his way to the palace of his employer, the aristocratic heiress Inayat Yasser, who has employed him as a writer to work on a grand history of her Ottoman family. On his night journey across the city, Amin recalls his idyllic childhood in a nearby village, his father's death when he was just ten years old, and his family's move to the city's poorest quarters. Thoughts of his estranged wife, Sumaya Shanoub ...

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Cry in a Long Night 2022, Darf Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781850773436

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