The One Facing Us
A Novel
A richly colored narrative of a flamboyant Jewish-Egyptian family and its dispersal across three continents, from Israel's most original new novelist.Esther, seventeen years old, wild and rebellious, is sent from Israel to Cameroon to stay with her hardheaded Uncle Sicourelle, who is charged with straightening her out. But Esther resists her uncle's plans for her future--which include marriage to a cousin--and in the privileged indolence of postcolonial Africa, she looks to the past instead. Using sepia portraits and scraps of letters, Esther pieces together the history of her family, a once-grand Egyptian-Jewish clan, and its displacement fr…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Weinstein, Marsha (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-4576-3
- EAN: 9781466845763
- Produktnummer: 22474454
- Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'804 KB
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Ronit Matalon; Translated by Marsha Weinstein
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