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Shubeik Lubeik

Name: Shubeik Lubeik
Brand: Pantheon
SKU: 9781524748418-PRUSDTR
Price: 230.0 HKD
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Edition: US - Hardback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

528 pages • 7.62 x 10.48 x 1.58 in

Approx. weight: 3.35 lb

Publication date: 10 Jan,2023

Barcode: 9781524748418 • Pantheon

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By: Deena Mohamed | Series: Pantheon Graphic Library

• Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation •Eisner Award Nominee • Hugo Award Nominee

A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical alternate Cairo where wishes really do come true. Shubeik Lubeik—a fairy tale rhyme that means “your wish is my command” in Arabic—is the story of three people who are navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale.
• A Best Book of the Year: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR

“The mythic qualities of Mohamed’s world bring our own world into sharper focus . . . Mohamed’s humor often feels like a protest, as do the thick and assertive lines of her drawings . . . The effect is gritty, brazen, and full of spunk.”—The New Yorker

Three wishes that are sold at an unassuming kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, changing their perspectives as well as their lives. Aziza learned early that life can be hard, but when she loses her husband and manages to procure a wish, she finds herself fighting bureaucracy and inequality for the right to have—and make—that wish. Nour is a privileged college student who secretly struggles with depression and must decide whether or not to use their wish to try to “fix” this depression, and then figure out how to do it. And, finally, Shokry must grapple with his religious convictions as he decides how to help a friend who doesn’t want to use their wish. Deena Mohamed brings to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are heartbreaking, inspiring, and deeply resonant.

Although their stories are fantastical—featuring talking donkeys, dragons, and cars that can magically avoid traffic—each of these people grapples with the very real challenge of trying to make their most deeply held desires come true.