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Download or read book Waiting for the Morning written by Mohamed Saïd Raïhani and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Waiting for the Morning”, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani's first collection of short stories, was released in 2003 with fourteen texts written originally in Arabic between 1991 and 2003. A collection of short stories with the flavour of a novel, as “waiting” is the central theme compiling all the fourteen texts scrolling carefreely in vicious circles, abandoning their characters in still time, lost in stifling voids and left to an existential suffering far beyond time... If the first pace towards being a published author in his own culture cost him a dozen of years of expectation, the second pace cost him no less than twelve years before the launch of the present English version...

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