Adding 6 new books to the "Your Summer is a Novel" initiative
Read and travel to the homeland of your favorite writer
6 readers will win tickets to the countries of the authors of the books they give interesting reviews.
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In a summer initiative for lovers of travel and reading, the “Your Summer is a Novel” campaign, launched by “Rawayat” from Sharjah, under the auspices of “Emirates Airlines”, continues to suggest a book every week to read, as the house selected six works from its best publications and allocated them for reading during the weeks of the campaign, which extends Until mid-September, the date for the announcement of its prizes, which are awaited by those who love to travel.
Six readers will win tickets to the countries of the authors of books about which they provide interesting reviews.
In order to be entitled to win two tickets from Emirates Airlines for the winners at the end of the campaign, the readers still have the opportunity to complete at least one presentation on one of the books nominated by “Ruayat” for reading, and share the presentation with the house’s account on “social media”.
The campaign continues for readers over the next three weeks with three other books to enjoy their contents and write reviews about them that qualify the best reviews to be nominated to win tickets to the countries of their authors. The books are “The Labyrinth,” by Burhan Sonmez from Turkey, and “Paris Orphia,” by Henry Cole from France, and "If Beale Street Could Speak" by James Baldwin of the United States.
During the first three weeks of the campaign, readers competed to submit reviews about three books from the novels’ publications, and the door is still open for readers to publish reviews about these books and share them with the “Ruwayat” account. The books are a novel by Swedish writer Yelmar Soderberi entitled “Doctor Class “It came in the form of a doctor’s diary revealing some secrets of patients who frequent his clinic.
And a novel from Kenya entitled “Don’t Cry, Child”, by Ngogi Wathiongo, one of the pioneers of African literature and winner of several international prizes, including the Man Booker International Prize. The uprising known in Kenya as the Mau Mau uprising between 1952 and 1962.
In a diversification of the campaign’s books and with the aim of introducing readers to international poetry, the third book included an anthology of the Polish poet Adam Zagayevsky, who is famous for combining poetry writing, criticism, translation and novel, and is considered one of the most important poets of the “68-70 generation”, and he won international awards, and the book is a translation of the writer The Iraqi is a Janabi phone.
More details about the campaign and conditions for participating in it can be found through the accounts of Dar “Rawayat” on the social networking site “Instagram”.
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