About the Book: Bread on Uncle Milads Table: A Novel
For fans of Naguib Mahfouzs classic Cairo Trilogy and Hisham Matars In the
Country of Men, a beautiful and thought-provoking novel set in early
twenty-first century Libya—winner of the International Prize for Arabic
Fiction—about a sensitive young man from a long line of bakers who tries to live
up to his fathers expectations.
"Must be one of Uncle Milads is a well-known insult among Libyans, typically
said of a 'Milad, a man who struggles to rein in the women who should be
obedient to him. Failing to do so he sullies not only