Hanan Al-Shaykh

The Occasional Virgin

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From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a frank, funny and fearless story about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and LondonBest friends Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera. Now grown up, successful and independent, their adolescent tribulations in Lebanon are far behind them - but the problems of love, sex and family spring eternal. Yvonne doesn't know what she's doing wrong, either there or back in London - she seems to spend her time waiting for the right man to come along and not leave again just as quickly. Huda has no problems in this department, only she isn't really interested in her effect on m… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4088-9568-9
EAN: 9781408895689
Produktnummer: 28961780
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 240 S.

Über den Autor

Hanan Al-Shaykh is one of the Arab world's most acclaimed writers. She was born in Lebanon and brought up in Beirut, before going to Cairo to receive her education. She was a successful journalist in Beirut, then later lived in the Arabian Gulf, before moving to London. She is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, Only in London, The Locust and the Bird, a memoir of her mother's life, and One Thousand and One Nights, her acclaimed reimagining of Arabic folktales. She has also written two plays, Dark Afternoon and Paper Husband. Her work has been translated into 28 languages. Hanan Al-Shaykh lives in London.Catherine Cobham is a lecturer in Arabic and head of the department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews. She has translated a number of contemporary authors from Arabic, including Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Hanan al-Shaykh, Fuad al-Takarli and Ghayath Almadhoun.