6/27/2023 0 Comments Jasmine days benyamin![]() ![]() Pratap, a Malayali journalist living in Toronto, is sent off by his boss on a mission to an unnamed city in West Asia. Set in an unnamed Arab city, the novel is rooted to the world that is conjured up by its predecessor. Out this month in Shahnaz Habib’s beautifully fluid English rendering (she has also translated Jasmine Days), Al Arabian Novel Factory plunges the reader into a dizzying labyrinth of suspense and intrigue. ![]() ![]() Rather, this excerpt offered an intimation of the complex metafictional universe that the Malayalam writer likes to weave around his work. At the end of the English translation of his novel Jasmine Days, which won the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature in 2018, Benyamin’s publisher, Juggernaut Books, included the first chapter of the book’s sequel-a novel called Al Arabian Novel Factory-as a teaser. ![]()
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