The Slave Yards by Najwa Bin Shatwan

The Slave Yards

Najwa Bin Shatwan with Nancy Roberts (Translator)

302 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan's powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily married with two children and working. When her cousi...

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