The pistachio seller

Reem Bassiouney

earliest edition we have, 2009 Syracuse University Press, 2013 176 pages

Middle East literature in translation

""It was Saturday. I remember. And while he was standing on a step ladder in the hall, changing a light bulb in the faint light coming through the window, I decided to love him." So begins this novel of quixotic adolescent longing and the enduring search for self. Set in middle-class urban Egypt, the story chronicles young Wafaa's struggle to come to terms with her own sexuality and her romantic infatuation with her...

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Pistachio Seller edition · 2013 · Syracuse University Press · 176 pages · 9780815610311
The pistachio seller edition · 2009 · Syracuse University Press · 162 pages · 9780815609193

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