{"product_id":"sarmada-44687","title":"سرمدة","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong-Listed for the Arab Booker prize, a novel in the Arabic language by Syrian novelist and journalist Fadi Azzam (b. 1973).  Documentary producer Rafi Azmi meets a strange woman in Paris - a Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne - who informs him that she has lived a previous life in his village of Sarmada, in southern Syria. It turns out that she is the reincarnation of a woman murdered by her brothers in an honour killing. Affected by her story, Rafi returns to his hometown, to discover an entire world previously hidden from him. The woman’s story leads him to delve into the depths of the place and uncover its secrets, desires, beauty and the co-existence of its people of different religions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFadi Azzam is a Syrian writer, born in Sweida, southern Syria, in 1973. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Damascus in 1998 and has written for Arabic newspapers, as well as publishing a number of stories in Arabic magazines. Between 2007 and 2009, he was culture and arts correspondent for Al Quds al-Arabi newspaper. He is the author of a book entitled Things Underneath (2010); a novel, Sarmada (2011), which was longlisted for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and translated into English, German and Italian; a book of travel writing, Journey to the Graves of Three Poets (2016); and Huddud's House (2017). Fadi Azzam lives in London and works in the media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eفادي عزام\u003cbr\u003eفادي عزّام كاتب سوري من مواليد السويداء، جنوب سوريا، عام 1973. تخرج من كلية الآداب في جامعة دمشق سنة 1998 ونشر في الصحف العربية مقالات ونصوصا وكذلك العديد من القصص في مجلات عربية. كان مراسلا ثقافيا وفنيا للقدس العربي بين 2007 و2009. صدر له كتاب نصوص بعنوان \"تحتانيات\" (2010)، ورواية \"سرمدة\" (2011) التي وصلت إلى القائمة الطويلة للجائزة العالمية لللرواية العربية سنة 2012 وترجمت إلى الإنجليزية والألمانية والإيطالية، و\"رحلة إلى قبور ثلاثة شعراء\" (كتاب في ادب الرحلات، 2016)، ورواية \"بيت حُدُد\" (2017). فادي عزّام مقيم في لندن ويعمل في المجال الإعلامي.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Antoine \/ Naufal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67715230564672,"sku":"44687","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/6664\/7616\/files\/sarmada-46.jpg?v=1791329283","url":"https:\/\/jarirbooksusa.com\/ar\/products\/sarmada-44687","provider":"Jarir Books USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}