The Prisoner of the Portuguese
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By: Mohsine Loukili
Genre: Novels
Publisher: Dar Rawafed
Year: 2022
The Prisoner of the Portuguese by Moroccan writer Mohsine Loukili first published in 2021 by Dar Mim is on the shortlist for the $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2022. The novel is about a man who leaves Fez and goes to the countryside looking for work only to find himself a prisoner in a Portuguese jail on the North African coast, leaving behind a wife and three children.
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