The Tobacco Keeper
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The Tobacco Keeper
by Ali Bader

A novel by Ali Bader, an award-winning Iraqi novelist, essayist, poet, scriptwriter, and journalist who has written ten novels that won 5 Arabic literary awards, several works of non-fiction and two poetry collections. Author of the novel Papa Sartre (AUC Press, 2009). Ali Bader, who had covered the Middle East as a war correspondent, lives in Belgium.

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