Chewing Gum (novel)

Chewing Gum

First edition
Author Mansour Bushnaf
Original title سراب الليل.. العلكة
Translator Mona Zaki
Cover artist Luke Pajak
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Fiction
Publisher DARF Publishers
Publication date
01 June 2014
Media type Print and Electronic (Paperback & ebook)
Pages 125 pp
ISBN 978-1-85077-272-9

Chewing Gum is the debut novel of Libyan writer Mansour Bushnaf, first published in Arabic 2008 in Cairo. It was banned by Gaddafi regime in Libya. It was first published in English in 2014 by DARF Publishers with a translation by Mona Zaki.

Plot summary

The novel centres around Mukhtar, a young Libyan man who stands frozen for ten years like a statue in the middle of public park in Libyan capital Tripoli after he was abandoned by his lover, the young and promiscuous Fatma. While the country is gripped with a chewing gum craze, different Libyan professors that just came from their studies abroad try to rediscover the country and suggest different theories to explain a society gripped with chewing gum and consumerism.

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