The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant
This award-winning novel is at once a recasting of the story of the Holy Family, an ode to Arab Jerusalem, and a call for liberation, not just of a nation but for the individual women and men who inhabit it. After abandoning his beloved Mariam when she becomes pregnant, and escaping her brothers' bullets, Ibrahim abandons his own ideals and dreams of becoming a novelist, opting instead to follow his father's wishes and seek wealth and commercial success abroad. Thirty years later, lonely and disillusioned, Ibrahim returns to Ramallah to retrace the past he tried to leave behind. He sets out on a long and frustrating quest to track down Mariam…
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Weitere Autoren: Bamia, Aida A. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56656-699-5
- EAN: 9781566566995
- Produktnummer: 3008994
- Verlag: Interlink Pub Group Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.9 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
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