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الحبيب السالمي
Habib Selmi is a Tunisian novelist who writes about rural life and the experiences of North African immigrants in Europe. He is best known for his novel The Lovers of Bayya and has been shortlisted
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Four elderly men, appearing like children, reveal the unspoken emotions of aging, from fading sexuality to the presence of death. Two of them fall for the same woman, who later marries one of their sons. The story is told with simple, transparent language that elevates their naive conversations to an artistic level.