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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Syracuse University Press

A Review of The Perception of Meaning by Hisham Bustani

November 16, 2015

Gretchen McCullough

Translated from the Arabic by Thoraya El-Rayyes (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015) Hisham Bustani’s third collection of fiction, The Perception of Meaning, translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes, is like a house of mirrors at a carnival, reflecting the distortion, absurdity, and … Continued

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