Trench

'Abd Al-Rahman Munif, Abdelrahman Munif. Vintage Books USA, $20 (560pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74533-4

Munif sets this second volume of his critically acclaimed Cities of Salt trilogy in a Middle Eastern kingdom during the 1950s. (Aug.)

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