Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: The Other Rooms, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Other Rooms
- Publisher:
- Darf Publishers Ltd, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781850773566
- Item number:
- 12456226
- Volume:
- 194 Pages
- Weight:
- 213 g
- Format:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Thickness:
- 11 mm
- Release date:
- 15.9.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
In The Other Rooms, acclaimed Palestinian-Iraqi writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra crafts a haunting modernist tale set in an unnamed city where nothing is what it seems. When an unnamed man is whisked from an empty city square into a nightmarish compound, he is plunged into a world of shadowy rooms, shifting identities, erotic entanglements, and elusive truths. As he is forced to lecture on a book he never wrote and assume names he doesn't recognize, the boundaries between reality and illusion collapse.
Written during the darkest years of Iraq's authoritarian era, The Other Rooms is a gripping allegory of state surveillance, intellectual repression, and the psychological toll of life under tyranny. With echoes of Kafka and Beckett, this is Jabra at his most experimental and unflinching-a visionary work of Arabic modernism that resonates powerfully today.