# As Though She Were Sleeping

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- Book: [As Though She Were Sleeping](https://www.bookquiver.com/elias-khoury/as-though-she-were-sleeping) ([As Though She Were Sleeping.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elias-khoury/as-though-she-were-sleeping.md))
- Authors: [Elias Khoury](https://www.bookquiver.com/elias-khoury)
- Publisher: archipelago
- ISBN: 978-19-3574-402-3
- Pages: 300
- Published: 2012-03-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Milia's response to her new husband Mansour and to the Arab World of 1947 is to close her eyes and drift into parallel worlds. Identities shift. Present, past, and future mingle and merge: she finds herself...