The Library
Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Kabelo Motsoeneng introduces “The Library,” an excerpt from Mohammad Rabie’s novel Kawkab ’Anbar, translated by Elliott Colla for our Spring 2022 issue, “Decades of Fire.” You can purchase the issue here. Sometimes literature translated into English can lack a kind of beauty and essential voice that might have existed […]
By Mohammad Rabie and Elliott Colla
Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Kabelo Motsoeneng introduces “The Library,” an excerpt from Mohammad Rabie’s novel Kawkab ’Anbar, translated by Elliott Colla for our Spring 2022 issue, “Decades of Fire.” You can purchase the issue here. Sometimes literature translated into English can lack a kind of beauty and essential voice that might have existed