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John Du Val on translating fabliaux
presents an intriguing selection of works from around the Arab world – from Lebanon
Louis Aragon
Not Esperanto
translated by Jonathan Dunne
The Hiding Room Mike Jenkins John Du Val on translatingThe Hiding Room moves between Cairo and British Mandate Palestine in 1941, and Israel of 1991. In 1941 a reserved English officer falls for a waiflike Viennese Jew trying to flee to Palestine. He betrays her, then tries to save her from the consequences of his action. He too has to flee, at risk both from his fellow British soldiers and the Zionist underground. Fifty years on, at the height of the Intifada, the son of this brief partnership comes to
