The Locust and the Bird
My Mother's Story
Brought up in poverty in southern Lebanon, Kamila never had the opportunity to go to school, although she longed to. She was nine years old when she moved to Beirut and only eleven when her brothers tricked her into getting engaged to a man eighteen years her senior. Kamila was expected to live a domestic life with her new husband, despite being a mere child herself. What follows is an incredible story of love and loss, tragedy, community and strength. Evoking the dusty streets of Beirut and the fabric of life in Lebanon this is a remarkable memoir about an extraordinary woman, full of colours, poetry and singing and told with heartbreaking a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4088-0007-2
- EAN: 9781408800072
- Produktnummer: 4000060
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Über den Autor
Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the contemporary 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 Cairo and in Beirut, then later lived in the Arabian Gulf, before moving to London. She is the author of the collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues and, most recently, Only in London, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She lives in London.
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