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 2022 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.

“Don’t mix the yeast with the salt directly; they’re like men and women.”

When it comes time for Milad to learn the family trade of baking, his father makes sur...