Mister N by Najwa Barakat
Shortlisted for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize
'A singular thriller of identity that keeps the reader in suspense until the final shattering twist' Eglal Errera, Le Monde des livres ---- 'It's as though Najwa Barakat wanted to embody, in the person of her lunatic hero, all the chaos, the surfeit of suffering being experienced by her homeland and by her fellow citizens. And she does so with remarkable ingenuity.' Hala Kodmani, Liberation ---- 'With this novel, Lebanese author Najwa Barakat leads us into a psychological puzzle . . . part Shutter Island, part Jorge Luis Borges.' Marjorie Bertin, Le Courrier de L'atlas ---- 'The human condition is a central focus for Barakat. Through her novels, she strives to build a new person, upholding his dignity and his right to express himself and to live in peace. Barakat searches for the causes of the pain and violence that is exercised upon man, and in doing so, she celebrates the lives of the misfortunate and those defeated by our inexorable reality.' Ashraf Al-Hisani, Al-Araby ---- 'For her protagonist, Najwa Barakat has chosen a psychologically disturbed man, opening for herself and the reader space in which to experience solitude, cruelty and anxiety, and to contemplate the power of language to generate pleasure nevertheless.' Ahmad Shawqi Ali, Al-Modon ---- 'Barakat continues to use the poetic, visionary language for which she is known, even as she adapts this language remarkably to capture her complicated subject . . . It is difficult - even for those well-practised in the art of reviewing novels - to capture the beauty of her writing.' Al-Muthana Al-Shaykh Atiya, Al-Quds
Luke Leafgren is an Assistant Dean of Harvard College. He has published five translations of Arabic novels and received the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for his English edition of Muhsin Al-Ramli’s The President’s Gardens.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781913505325 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913505324 |
| Title | Mister N |
| Author | Najwa Barakat |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | And Other Stories |
| Year published | 2022-05-17 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Shortlisted for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |