Sleeper Ibtisam Abdallah This surreal novel enfolds a

This surreal novel enfolds a masterful exploration of gender in taut

” — Mahmoud Darwish

childhoods such as Pooran's

Read the evidence and hear the voices of the oppressed in resistance and defeat

Sleeper Ibtisam Abdallah This surreal novel enfolds aSleepers hide in plain sight. Spies, double agents, lovers, mothers, writers. They wear smiling masks, turn up the collars of their raincoats, write in invisible ink, wear many disguises, and consort with the enemy. Some of them sleep for years, like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be summoned. Some forget what they are hiding from, or where their real allegiances lie. Sleeper examines loyalty and dishonesty, class and power, the spies who were caught