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    All That I Want to Forget: A Novel
    All That I Want to Forget: A Novel
    All That I Want to Forget: A Novel
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    All That I Want to Forget: A Novel

    By Bothayna Al-Essa

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    A courageous young woman from the Gulf must overcome conservatism and oppression from her own family to live and love as she chooses

    Fatima loves poetry and wants to study French literature—both of which are anathema to her strict and conservative much older brother, Saqr. While living under his roof, Fatima’s hopes and dreams are scrutinized, mocked, and slowly crushed as she is forced into his narrow vision of the right path.

    Then Fatima meets Isam, a poet like her; they email love letters to each other and meet in secret. Saqr, however, has other ideas: she is married off to Faris, a complete stranger. He is not the cruel tyrant her brother was, but still she did not choose him.

    Will she escape her past to live the life of love and poetry she craves?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoopoe
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9781617979262
    All That I Want to Forget: A Novel
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    Bothayna Al-Essa

    Bothayna Al-Essa is the bestselling Kuwaiti author of nearly a dozen novels and additional children’s books. She is also the founder of Takween, a bookshop and publisher of critically acclaimed works. Her most recent book, The Book Censor's Library, won the Sharjah Award for Creativity in the novel category in 2021 and is her third novel to appear in English, after Lost in Mecca and All That I Want to Forget. Al-Essa was author-in-residence at the British Centre for Literary Translation for the summer of 2023, and the recipient of Kuwait’s Nation Encouragement Award for her fiction in 2003 and 2012. She has written books on writing and led writing workshops throughout the Arab world.

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