Readers Club Selections: 2022
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
By: Mubarak Ouassat
"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is a worldwide classic and remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. The story begins with a traveling salesman...
Silence and Silences by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
By: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
A meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence, from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, the author of The Other Side of the Tiber and Mother Tongue. We need quiet to feel nothing, to hear silence that brings back proportion and the beauty of not knowing except for the outlines...
1984 by George Orwell
By: Hareth Nabhan
1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. T...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
By: Abrar Akef
Brave new world is Aldous Huxley's masterpiece, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost. It has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to th...
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
By: Ahmed Al Ali
In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile w...
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux - 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
By: Amina Rachid
This novel was first translated into Arabic by Amina Rachid and Sayed El Bahrawy in 1994. Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux&rsquo...
I the King have come
By: Bahaa Taher
مجموعة قصصية نشرت اول مرة في هيئة الكتاب عام 1985 «كتابات بهاء طاهر من هذه الكتابات الهامسة التي تنساب إليك في هدوء آسر بليغ، وتربت على مشاعرك في نعومة ورقة مهما بلغت حدتها الدرامية وعمقها الدلالي. إنه قصاص شاعر متصوف تفيض شاعريته وصوفيته برؤية إنسانية حارة تُغريك برومانسي...
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