Amira Ghenim is a Tunisian writer and academic, born in 1978. She teaches Linguistics and Translation at Tunis University. Her novel The Yellow Dossier won the 2020 Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamad Prize. A Calamity of Noble Houses was published in 2020.
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★ “Ghenim keeps the reader guessing, as she does her characters, with passion and anguish, disclosing devastating secrets of lives maliciously destroyed. A stirring, engrossing tale.”— Kirkus Reviews, Dec 1 2024![]()
“Ghenim offers an enthralling saga of two upper-class families linked by marriage and roiled by an explosive letter in 1935 Tunis... Ghenim provides a rich backdrop with descriptions of Tunisia’s fight for independence. Readers will be transported.”— Publishers Weekly, Nov 6 2024
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