Another top book of 2023: Traces of Enayat by #ImanMersal (originally published in Arabic in 2019). I picked this up only because the 2 books I recently read from this publisher (And Other Stories) were amazing. So glad I did. After randomly picking up a novel, Mersal spends years trying to find out who the author was, and why her life ended tragically. Mersal's writing is intoxicating, I kept forgetting that this was nonfiction, and it made me wish dearly that I was still an academic myself.

Where are all the wasted days?

C.V.
Iman Mersal, translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell

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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/05/13/c-v/

A poem by Iman Mersal, translated by Robyn Creswell.

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A poem by Iman Mersal, translated by Robyn Creswell.

#poem #poetry #CV #curriculum
#ImanMersal