The men of the censorship department spend all of their working hours reading through newly published books, looking for anything that might bar them from the dwindling books throughout their dystopian country in Bothayna Al-Essa’s bleak novel, The Book Censor’s Library (translated by Sawad Hussein and Ranya Abdelrahman). Thankfully for us, the newest member of this department has discovered that reading is magically transformative after volunteering to take a look at a new edition of the very much banned Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis. Book censors are not supposed to fall in love with the books...

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