Jokes for the Gunmen

Mazen Maarouf brings magical realism to the darkness of war

‘Jokes for the Gunmen,’ on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize, has been translated into English by Jonathan Wright and published by Granta Books.
It was published in Arabic by Beirut’s Riad El-Rayyes Books in 2015.

By Manal Shakir · 23 October 2019