The stone of laughter by Hoda Barakat

Hoda Barakat is a Lebanese writer whose first collection of short stories, Za’irat (Visitors), was published in 1985. The novel under review first appeared in Arabic in 1990 and won a prestigious Arab literary prize, the al-Naqid Award for a first novel. The Stone of Laughter is set in Beirut against a backdrop of the [...]

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