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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool ... against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is―after...
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 176 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A themed collection of short stories about animals, which offers a striking example of environmentally concerned literature from the Arab world, by an Egyptian author with a keen and sensitive eye for the behavior of animals-especially homo sapiens"--
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