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Young Mukhtar is frozen in time, gazing at his beloved Fatma as she disappears into the streets of Tripoli, destined to a life of prostitution. Around these young lovers, Bushnaf weaves a compelling network of images: a litter- strewn park, a bewitching Italian statue and a fluttering red scarf. Through these images, imbued with social, historical and existential import, Bushnaf paints a dark portrait of a country in crisis and an individual, alone at the centre of conflicting ideologies, all attempting to explain his existence away. With its satirical and semi-journalistic style, Chewing Gum is an existential quest to understand how a society exists beneath a repressive dictatorship. The rhythmic act of chewing relentlessly continues as individuals, time and land turn to waste. In this debut novel, no one escapes the critical gaze of a writer who witnessed first-hand the brutality of Gaddafi's regime. At times downright funny and at times poignantly sad, Chewing Gum depicts the academics, politicians and businessmen of Libya who all claim a monopoly on the truth of the country but who all, inevitably, fail the individual.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Chewing gum
• Author: Mansour Bushnaf
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126
• EAN: 9781850772729
• ISBN: 185077272X
• ID: 02482127
• Publisher: Darf Publishers Ltd
• Weight: 136 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 131 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2014

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