Employing a variety of different genres, the stories in Hisham Bustani’s The Monotonous Chaos of Existence -- translated by maia tabet -- explore the transformations in contemporary Jordan, the Levant, and the wider world.

At this launch event, we'll talk about Hisham Bustani's second short-story collection in English translation, The Monotonous Chaos of Existence, the different ways his work is received in English and Arabic, the challenges of translation & of editing translations, the nitty-gritty of publishing multi-genre work, and the intersection of Jordanian literature, politics, and society.

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