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The book censor's library
Title:
The book censor's library
Author:
Al-Essa, Buthaynah, author.
ISBN:
9781632063342
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Ḥāris saṭḥ al-ʻālam. English
Edition:
First Restless Books paperback edition.
Physical Description:
261 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
General Note:
First published by Takween Publishing House (Kuwait) and ASPArabic (Beirut) 2019.
Abstract:
"The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture."--Amazon.