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    The Singularity
    The Singularity
    The Singularity
    Audiobook3 hours

    The Singularity

    Written by Balsam Karam

    Narrated by Mara Wilson

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    From one of Sweden’s most exciting new novelists comes a lyrical, devastating, and breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood that interweaves two narratives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    TranslatorSaskia Vogel
    Release dateMar 26, 2024
    ISBN9781666657807
    Author

    Balsam Karam

    Saskia Vogel is the author of Permission (2019) and the translator of over twenty Swedish-language books. She was awarded the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature and was a finalist for the PEN Translation Award. She worked on The Singularity as part of her translation residency at Princeton University. From Los Angeles, she now lives in Berlin.

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