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City of Saffron

Edwar al-Kharrat

1986
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Poetic vignettes of a childhood in old cosmopolitan Alexandria.

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An Alexandrian avant-gardist who renewed Arabic prose with poetic, fragmentary writing. City of Saffron is a lyrical mosaic of memory of a many-faced city.

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