The Other Rooms

By Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

In The Other Rooms, acclaimed Palestinian-Iraqi writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra crafts a haunting modernist tale set in an unnamed city where nothing is what it seems. When an unnamed man is whisked from an empty city square into a nightmarish compound, he is plunged into a world of shadowy rooms, shifting identities, erotic entanglements, and elusive truths. As he is forced to lecture on a book he never wrote and assume names he doesn't recognize, the boundaries between reality and illusion collapse.

Written during the darkest years of Iraq's authoritarian era, The Other Rooms is a gripping allegory of state surveillance, intellectual repression, and the psychological toll of life under tyranny. With echoes of Kafka and Beckett, this is Jabra at his most experimental and unflinching-a visionary work of Arabic modernism that resonates powerfully today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850773564
• ISBN13: 9781850773566
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Darf Publishers
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"