TY - BOOK AU - Khuḍayrī,Batūl AU - Jamil,Muhayman TI - Absent: a novel SN - 9780812977424 AV - PJ 7842.H685 G4813 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Random House Trade Paperbacks KW - Apartment dwellers KW - Iraq KW - Baghdad KW - Fiction KW - Baghdad (Iraq) N1 - Translation of: Ghāyib; Includes a reader's guide; "Originally published in Arabic as Ghayib in 2004. This English translation was published by the American University in Cairo Press in 2005"--T.p. verso ER -