ECHO Book of the Week: the Night Mail

Hoda Barakat’s latest book won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. It brings together the stories of six people who write after discovering the mainly incomplete or unsent letters of those before them. They are outsiders, migrants, refugees, foreigners. Through this book we gain brief but intense insights into their lives and how they navigate loss, grief, family and belonging.

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