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The Beetle's Tavern - Issam Abdel Ghafour
JOD
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A fast-paced novel where each page is a world unto itself, borrowing similarities from the previous page while imposing differences on the next. It represents a brilliant model of an Arabic novel inspired by the atmosphere of Latin American narrative, complete with its organic features of characters, events, and plot. The story is rich with a vast amount of small details that come together to form the complete picture of a remote village in the Andes mountains, with its indigenous people, unique culture, and strange world. The author sets his novel in a tavern where the village's outsiders gather, using a forward-looking narrative to explore their struggle with the world, skillfully and consciously reshaping the scene as he sees fit.