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Mouni & The Thread

Mouni & The Thread

Dakhane, Omar

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798254887805
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 750
Weight: 2.17
Height: 1.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She had been reaching for the edge of her sleeve for two years without knowing why.

Mouni is twenty-four, lives alone in M'sila, works in a bookshop that doesn't have a name, and has not been fully present in her own life since the day the world used its scissors on a love she was not finished with. Then one October morning, a thread appears from her sleeve - golden, impossible, warm - and it leads south. Across the Hodna steppe, through the pre-Sahara, into the deep desert, Mouni follows the thread and gathers a procession: a painter who has been painting the same spiral on every empty wall for six months, a carpenter who stopped building, a teacher carrying a briefcase he hasn't opened in twenty-two years, a woman with an unsent letter she wrote in the dark forty years ago. Each of them carries a thread. Each thread is a story that was started and never finished. And south of everything, beneath the desert, something is waiting - something older than scissors, older than interruption - that knows how to weave unfinished things into what they were always going to become.

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