Raja Alem

Fatma: A Novel of Arabia

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Told in the form of dreams and living parables, Fatma is full of vivid descriptions that billow from Alem's bottomless well of Saudi culture. Nuggets of wisdom are sequestered within these languid lines of prose like diamonds in the rough. - Virginia Quarterly Review; One might consider this tale a revelation of Arabian women's inner lives in rebellion against the confines imposed on them - or perhaps an exploration of innate suspicion between male and female. Or perhaps there is no identifiable meaning, just effect. The highly sensuous text was shaped by McDonough, who adds an afterword about his working relationship with the Saudi author. -… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8156-0812-7
EAN: 9780815608127
Produktnummer: 1376835
Verlag: Syracuse Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 236 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 236

Über den Autor

Raja Alem is the author of seven novels, many plays, and collections of poetry. She lives in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Tom McDonough is the author of a novel, Virgin with Child, and a short story collection, Light Years. His cinematography won an Academy Award for the feature documentary Best Boy.