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FICTION
NOVEMBER 2007
13X20 CM
PAPERBACK
200PP £8.99
ISBN: 1846590264

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• About the Translator
• Book Info
• Excerpts
• Reviews


About the Author
Hassan Daoud is chief editor of Nawafez (Windows), the cultural supplement for Al Mustaqbal Daily in Beirut. He has also served as cultural editor and contributor to other Lebanese national newspapers. His novels include House of Mathilde (Granta, Actes Sud), The Penguin's Song and Added Days (both Lenos).

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Reviews

'The dynamic in this engaging piece of fiction comes from the energy of the young men who flit around the city smoking, talking and watching, but also from the change in the bakeries themselves, as new machinery alters the way things have always been done'
The Daily Mail

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My father laughed when he heard that the government had declared that all bread-makers had to wear white overalls, imagining his workers standing there like patissiers. Next they'd be introducing metal tongs, he said, for handling the dough. The image of his employees dressed like women jarred with his belief that work in a bakery was tough, man's work.

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