Chewing Gum

Art Jameel

Chewing Gum

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Young Mukhtar is frozen in time, gazing at his beloved Fatma as she disappears into the streets of Tripoli, Libya, destined to a life of prostitution. Around these young lovers, Bushnaf weaves a compelling network of images: a litter-strewn park, a bewitching Italian statue and a fluttering red scarf. Through these images, imbued with social, historical and existential import, Bushnaf paints a dark portrait of a country in crisis and an individual, alone at the centre of conflicting ideologies, all attempting to explain his existence away.

With its satirical and semi-journalistic style, Chewing Gum is an existential quest to understand how a society exists beneath a repressive dictatorship. The rhythmic act of chewing relentlessly continues as individuals, time and land turn to waste. In this debut novel, no one escapes the critical gaze of a writer who witnessed first-hand the brutality of Gaddafi’s regime.

Softcover

126 pages

Dimensions: height 19.7 x width 12.8 x depth 1.16 cm

ISBN: 9781850772729

Publisher: Darf Publishers

Published (date) October 03, 2017

Country of publication: London, United Kingdom

Weight: 136 gr

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Darf Publishers is a London-based independent publisher with diversity and inclusion at the heart of its work.

Established in 1981 as an English imprint for the long-standing Arab publisher Dar Fergiani which was established by the late Mohamed Bashir Fergiani in 1952 in Libya- based Arab publisher Dar Fergiani, it focussed for three decades on publishing and reprinting classical history and travel books about Middle East, Africa and Asia in English. Since 2014, Darf shifted focus to establish itself as a leading publisher in translating new emerging writers from around the world into English, including works of fiction, non-fiction and children's books.

Mansour Bushnaf is a playwright, novelist and essayist, born in Libya, 1954. He was imprisoned for ten years in the early 1970s because of his political activism and critical writings and is renowned for his award-winning satirical plays. Chewing Gum is his first novel. He lives and works in Tripoli.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Darf Publishers is a London-based independent publisher with diversity and inclusion at the heart of its work.

Established in 1981 as an English imprint for the long-standing Arab publisher Dar Fergiani which was established by the late Mohamed Bashir Fergiani in 1952 in Libya- based Arab publisher Dar Fergiani, it focussed for three decades on publishing and reprinting classical history and travel books about Middle East, Africa and Asia in English. Since 2014, Darf shifted focus to establish itself as a leading publisher in translating new emerging writers from around the world into English, including works of fiction, non-fiction and children's books.

Mansour Bushnaf is a playwright, novelist and essayist, born in Libya, 1954. He was imprisoned for ten years in the early 1970s because of his political activism and critical writings and is renowned for his award-winning satirical plays. Chewing Gum is his first novel. He lives and works in Tripoli.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

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