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Hassan Daoud-The Penguin's Song

Bridging the Distance: Marilyn Booth’s Translation of The Penguin’s Song by Hassan Daoud

Reviewed by Ghada Mourad The Penguin’s Song (ghināʾ al-batrīq) tells the story of a family of three whose lives are completely transformed as a result of their displacement out of the old city of Beirut. The twenty-year old son, whose upper body deformation makes his figure and way of walking evocative of a penguin’s, narrates […]