Bøger af Edwar al-Kharrat

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Ranked by The Arab Writers Union as 8th in its list of the 100 best Arabic novels

Set in the small town called Tarrana in the Nile Delta in the 1930s, this book revolves around nine episodes in the life of a sensitive young Christian boy - a montage of philosophical, mythical, and psychological perspectives that highlights the struggle between polarities of man and woman, Copt and Muslim, dreams and reality.