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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

Middle East

• Turkey
• Syria
• Lebanon
• Jordan
• Israel
• Palestine
• Iraq
• Iran
• Saudi Arabia
• Gulf
• Yemen

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  The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer

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  A powerful novel which takes the revolution in Iran and gives it a human face with which we can empathise and engage. Isaac Amin is arrested as a spy following the Iranian revolution, he must try and survive in prison while his family search for him and desperately try to adjust to their new circumstances. Dramatic, emotional and well-written.

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  The Jerusalem File by Joel Stone

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  Lonely and despondent ex-secret serviceman Levin agrees to follow a friend's wife and discovers that she is having an affair. When her lover is found dead, however, Levin's life becomes complicated. A well-written story set in contemporary Jerusalem which speaks of the numbness of living in a city threatened by constant terrorism.

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  Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift

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  On hearing the news that his brother has been killed whilst serving in Iraq, Jack Luxton - the grief-striken owner of an island caravan site - returns to the mainlaind to begin the process of repatriating his brother's body. As he does so, he starts to rummage through his unhappy history in an attempt to understand his long-endured feelings of despondency and inertia. A tense, harrowing portrayal of personal trauma and contemporary alienation.

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  Dear Shameless Death by Latife Takin

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  Tekin's autobiographical first novel follows a young girl from her birth in a small rural village to her move to a big city, a fine, insightful tale of what it is to be a young woman in Turkey.

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  Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz

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  An utterly gripping story about the desperate, obsessive and intoxicating love an Israeli secret agent develops for an Englishwoman, a love that leads him to sinister and extreme measures of control.

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  Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

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  The light hearted, highly enjoyable tale of a long suffering civil servant asigned the task of introducing salmon to Yemen's rivers. This is knockabout stuff, but he captures Yemenis very well and we highly recommend the novel.

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  Helena by Evelyn Waugh

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  Certainly not one of his best, but still an entertaining, mildly satiric, and ultimately fairly spiritual biography of the mother of Constantine the Great.