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The book censor's library /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: ʻĪsá, Buthaynah (Author)
Other Authors: Abdelrahman, Ranya (Translator), Hussain, Sawad (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Restless Books, 2024.
Edition:First Restless Books paperback edition.
Subjects:
Libraries > Censorship > Fiction.
Challenged books > Fiction.
Intellectual freedom > Fiction.
Books and reading > Fiction.
Satire.
Dystopias.
Bibliothèques > Censure > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Livres contestés > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Liberté de pensée > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Livres et lecture > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dystopies.
dystopias.
satire (artistic device)
Dystopian fiction.
Satirical literature.
Novels.
Satires (Littérature)
Romans.
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Summary:"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.
Item Description:First published by Takween Publishing House (Kuwait) and ASPArabic (Beirut) 2019.
Physical Description:261 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
ISBN:9781632063342
1632063344