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ISBN: 978-0-8156-3369-3 (paper)       978-0-8156-5296-0 (e-book)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zafzaf, Muhammad.

[Short stories. Selections. English]

Monarch of the square : an anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf’s short stories / translated from the Arabic by Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen. — First edition.

pages cm. — (Middle East literature in translation)

ISBN 978-0-8156-3369-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5296-0 (ebook)

1. Zafzaf, Muhammad—Translations into English.  I. Sryfi, Mbarek, translator.  II. Allen, Roger, 1942– translator.  III. Title.

PJ7876.I4A2 2014

892.7’36—dc23      2014030648

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