The Baghdad Clock

by Shahad Al Rawi

  The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault (French)

  Translated by Liedewy Hawke

  Three Envelopes by Nir Hezroni (Hebrew)

  Translated by Steven Cohen Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish)

  Translated by Megan McDowell

  The Postman’s Fiancée by Denis Thériault (French)

  Translated by John Cullen

  The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha (Brazilian Portuguese)

  Translated by Eric M. B. Becker

  The Temptation to Be Happy by Lorenzo Marone (Italian)

  Translated by Shaun Whiteside

  Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (Japanese)

  Translated by Alison Watts

  They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen (Finnish)

  Translated by Kristian London

  The Tiger and the Acrobat by Susanna Tamaro (Italian)

  Translated by Nicoleugenia Prezzavento and Vicki Satlow

  The Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason (Icelandic)

  Translated by Brian FitzGibbon

  Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Arabic)

  Translated by Jonathan Wright

  Back Up by Paul Colize (French)

  Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie

  Damnation by Peter Beck (German)

  Translated by Jamie Bulloch

  Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt (Finnish)

  Translated by Owen Witesman

  The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea by Denis Thériault (French)

  Translated by Liedewy Hawke

  The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi (Arabic)

  Translated by Luke Leafgren

  The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)

  Translated by Lisa C. Hayden

  Lala by Jacek Dehnel (Polish)

  Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

  A Oneworld Book

  First published in North America, Great Britain and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2018

  This ebook published 2018

  Originally published in Arabic by Dar al-Hikma, 2016

  Copyright © Shahad Al Rawi, 2016

  English translation copyright © Luke Leafgren, 2018

  The moral right of Shahad Al Rawi to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Every reasonable effort has been made to trace the copyright holders of material reproduced in this book, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers would be glad to hear from them.

  All rights reserved

  Copyright under Berne Convention

  A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library

  Trade paperback ISBN 978-1-78607-322-8

  Hardback ISBN 978-1-78607-324-2

  eBook ISBN 978-1-78607-323-5

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