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Original title سراب الليل.. العلكة Cover artist Luke Pajak Language English Originally published 1 June 2014 Genre Fiction | 3.6/5 Goodreads Translator Mona Zaki Country United Kingdom Publication date 01 June 2014 Publisher DARF Publishers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chewing Gum is the debut novel of Libyan writer Mansour Bushnaf, first published in Arabic 2008 in Cairo. It was banned by Gaddafi regime in Libya. It was first published in English in 2014 by DARF Publishers with a translation by Mona Zaki.
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The novel centres around Mukhtar, a young Libyan man who stands frozen for ten years like a statue in the middle of public park in Libyan capital Tripoli after he was abandoned by his lover, the young and promiscuous Fatma. While the country is gripped with a chewing gum craze, different Libyan professors that just came from their studies abroad try to rediscover the country and suggest different theories to explain a society gripped with chewing gum and consumerism.
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