The Dogear

The Night Mail

by Hoda Barakat

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Set in 3 places · 2 primary
Sense of Place
4/5

Set in

  • ★
    Paris · France
    European exile city where Arab displaced people send and receive letters of loss
    ★ primary
  • ★
    Beirut
    ★ primary
  • Beirut · Lebanon
    Homeland left behind by the exiled letter-writers whose night letters crisscross the Arab diaspora

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