Hush Now, Canary
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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In a city strained by fear and uncertainty, lives intersect in fleeting moments of intimacy, loss, and endurance. Hush Now, Canary unfolds through a polyphonic structure, giving voice to the living, the displaced, the imprisoned, and the dead, each bearing witness to how ordinary life fractures under pressure. Blending stark realism with subtle surrealism, the novel resists grand explanations and instead lingers on gestures, silences, and the fragile persistence of memory.A canary moves through the narrative as a recurring presence—at once observer, symbol, and thread—binding together stories shaped by disappearance and survival. Told with restraint and lyrical precision, Mustafa Khalid’s novel is less concerned with spectacle than with how people continue to speak, remember, and exist when certainty collapses. Translated with clarity and sensitivity by William Hutchins, Hush Now, Canary is a powerful work of contemporary literary fiction that affirms the endurance of voice in moments of profound rupture.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2026-07-06
- Mått129 x 198 x 11 mm
- Vikt134 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor128
- FörlagDar Arab
- MedarbetareAli AlMujaini
- ISBN9781788711166
- ÖversättareWilliam Hutchins
- UtmärkelserWinner of Bait Al-Ghasham DarArab International Translation Prize 2025 (UK)