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About the Author
Hassan Daoud is chief editor of Nawafez, the cultural supplement for Al Mustaqbal Daily in Beirut. He has also served as cultural editor and contributor to other Lebanese national newspapers.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-047-4
Fiction
January 2009
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
160 pages
£8.99

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Reviews
'This elegant short novel, fluidly translated from the Arabic by Michael K. Scott, is his stream of consciousness, and provides insight into both the Shia community and the universal experience of growing old.'
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Excerpts
My I.D card shows I'm now ninety-four, with a picture of me aged forty stuck on it. For years I claimed I was actually three years younger, as my father registered my birth to match the age of boys I know were not my generation, to get me out of military service.

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