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“It is near the end now.” What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, March 2019) by Carolyn Forché. Fifth book, first memoir. Agent: Bill Clegg. Editor: Christopher Richards. Publicist: Sarah Hutson.

“Two hours before he died, Abdel Latif al-Salim looked his son Bolbol (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2019) by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price. Fifth book, novel. Agent: Yasmina Jraissati. Editor: Jeremy Davies. Publicist: Brian Gittis.

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