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Betool Khedairi

earliest edition we have, 2005 American University in Cairo Press, 2005 hardcover 256 pages

Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments, Saad the hairdresser attends to a dwindling number of female customers, and Ilham, a nurse, escapes the stark realities of her hospital job in dreams of her long-lost French mother. Despite...

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Muhayman Jamil 1 printing we hold · 2007 · Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Absent edition · 2007 · Random House Publishing Group · 9781588366368
Absent paperback · 2007 · Random House Trade Paperbacks · 221 pages · 9780812977424
Absent hardcover · 2005 · American University in Cairo Press · 256 pages · 9789774249631

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