Ahlem Mosteghanemi

Chaos of the Senses

Buch

Picking up where The Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi's second novel begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on flesh. She falls in love with the story's male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out in the dark corners of a battered city. After all, the best and truest loves are those we find when we're looking for something else. With poetic finesse, the author weaves fact and fiction to convey a chapter in Algeria's history as no on… Mehr

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Produktdetails

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ISBN: 978-1-4088-5772-4
EAN: 9781408857724
Produktnummer: 18121630
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.7 cm 226 g
Gewicht: 226

Über den Autor

Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author in the Arab world. In December 2016 she was designated UNESCO Artist for Peace. She has more than 10 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in the top ten most influential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. The previous book in her trilogy of bestselling novels, The Bridges of Constantine, was published by Bloomsbury, and has been translated into several languages and adapted into a television series.