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    "description": "In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila.\n\nMarried at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man\u0097and was thus forced to choose between her children and her lover. As the narrative unfolds through the years\u0097from the bazaars, cinemas and apartments of 1930s Beirut to its war-torn streets decades later\u0097we follow this passionate woman as she survives the tragedies and celebrates the triumphs of a life lived to the very fullest.\n",
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