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The Resisting Power of Living–and Writing–Ordinary Lives: An Interview with Ibtisam Azem on THE SLEEP THIEF
My first impression of Booker-longlisted Ibtisam Azem’s novel, The Sleep Thief, is that it is a love letter–or perhaps, at times, a grief letter, so to speak–to language. Propulsive, haunting, written in dream logic prose, The Sleep Thief tells the story of, and is periodically told by, a young Palestinian named Gharib (“the sleep thief,”…