Book Review
Planet of Clay (2020)
by Samar Yazbek
Is the last National Book Award finalist for translated fiction left? I'm still short one finalist- Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Dupabin (also the winner). It was heartening to see a book on the list translated from Arabic, and even better that the author is a Syrian woman- major diversity points, and triple empathy points for a novel about a mentally disabled girl/teenager/young adult during the horrors of the Syrian Civil War. It's rough sledding- a fractured narrative. Just rough.
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