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The Other Rooms

By Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim

The Other Rooms

By Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2025-09-15
Publication Date:
2025-09-15
Publisher:
Darf Publishers Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1850773564
ISBN13:
9781850773566
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
213 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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