Land without Jasmine Al-Ahdal Wajdi
Land without Jasmine Al-Ahdal Wajdi Winner of the 2013 Said Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.A Land without Jasmine is a sexy, satirical detective story about the sudden…
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Land without Jasmine Al-Ahdal Wajdi
Winner of the 2013 Said Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.A Land without Jasmine is a sexy, satirical detective story about the sudden disappearance of a young female student from Yemen's Sanaa University. The mystery surrounding her disappearance comes into clearer focus with each self-serving and idiosyncratic account provided by an acquaintance, family member, or detective. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, beginning with Jasmine herself.
Less mystically inclined readers may want to reread this tale to construct an alternative ending. The hallucinatory ending, although appropriately foreshadowed, may come as a Sufi surprise for the reader. This short novel has echoes of both the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Catcher in the Rye as, in addition to the mystery and a murder, the novel contains candid discussions of coming of