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The Dove's Necklace

Raja Alem

2010

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A murder mystery in Mecca's alleys lays bare the holy city's hidden life.

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The Dove's Necklace made Raja Alem the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF, 2011, as co-winner), showing Mecca from an inside rarely seen.

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