We Are All Equally Far from Love

By Adania Shibli and Paul Starkey

Fiction : Psychological

Clockroot Books
Publication date: November 2012

ISBN: 9781623710149

Digital Book format: ePub (Adobe DRM)

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A new award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of TouchA young woman, asked at work to write a letter to an older man, does as she is told. So begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in letters. A love affair? Maybe. Until his letters stop coming. Or maybe the letters do not reach their intended recipient? Only the teenage Afaf, who works at the local post office, would know. Her favorite duty is to open the mail and inform her collaborator father of the contentsuntil she finds a mysterious set of love letters, apparently returned to their sender.In the hands of Adania Shibli, the discovery of these letters makes for a wrenching meditation on lives lived ensnared within the dictates of others.