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“Mansoura Ezeldin’s novel has the intensity and mystery of a marvelous gem” – Damien Aubel reviews Ezeldin’s “The orchards of Basra”

Damien Aubel, February 2023,  for Transfuge
Mansoura Ezeldin’s novel has the intensity and mystery of a marvelous gem. It illuminates this winter’s publications.
Here is a book which delights the reader in exactly the same proportion as it condemns the critic to embarrassment.
A book that prevents any analytical intent, and causes a thousand rare pleasures. A small prowess in which the qualities apparently least likely to agree come together with the most perfect naturalness. A malleable alloy where are mixed together the highest erudition — the intellectual effervescence of the Basra of the 8th century –; the flow, both tumultuous and …

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The Wind’s Abode on France 5

Samar Yazbek’s book “The Wind’s abode”, published by Stock presented in ‘C’est ce soir’ on France 5.
Listen to the presentation here

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Samar Yazbek presents ‘The Wind’s Abode’ on TV5

Samar Yazbek, author of “The Wind’s Abode”, published at Éditions Stock, was invited at “Maghreb-Orient Express” show on TV5 to talk about her book.
Listen to the interview here

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‘The Wind’s abode’: Samar Yazbek, the martyred mountain – By Hala Kodmani, Libération

A review by Hala Kodmani, for Libération, January 22nd, 2023
 
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