Bothayna Al Essa and Sawad Hussain at the 2024 National Book Awards Finalist Reading

Samar Yazbek, Where the Wind Calls Home
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price
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2024 National Book Awards Finalist for Translated Literature

Each year, the National Book Award Finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature gather the evening before the National Book Awards Ceremony to read excerpts from their honored works.

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