Bread on Uncle Milad's Table: A Novel

For fans of Naguib Mahfouz's classic Cairo Trilogy and Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men, a beautiful and thought-provoking novel set in early twenty-first century Libya—winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction—about a sensitive young man from a long line of bakers who tries to live up to his father's expectations.

“Must be one of Uncle Milad’s is a well-known insult among Libyans, typically said of a ‘Milad’, a man who struggles to rein in the women who should be obedient to ...