First published in English in 2014 by

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

Qatar Foundation

PO Box 5825

Doha

Qatar

www.bqfp.com.qa

 

First published in Arabic in 2008 as Farag by Dar el Shorouk

 

Copyright © Radwa Ashour, 2008

Translation © Barbara Romaine, 2014

Paul Fort, « Complainte du petit cheval blanc »,

Ballades françaises © Flammarion

 

The moral right of the author has been asserted

 

ISBN 9789927101250

 

Blue Lorries is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either

the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance

to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

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