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Sunset oasis is a highly ambitious and accomplished work sunset oasis is a work of fiction in which nothing is small or petty, and everything in it the theme, the workmanship, and even the size is large. Sunset oasis is set at the end of the 19th century in the oasis of siwa. Sunset oasis is an ambitiously weighty novel and its characters sometimes behave more like ciphers than real. His sixth novel is set in 19th century egypt at the beginning of. This is, in short, the plot of two texts by bahaa taher 1935 ana almalik ji.
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