- EAN13
- 9781529415667
- Éditeur
- Maclehose Press
- Date de publication
- 28/03/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Before the Queen Falls Asleep
A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer
Huzama Habayeb
Maclehose Press
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9781529415667
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Fichier EPUB, avec DRM Adobe
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Impossible
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Impossible
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*As featured as an editor's pick on Radio Four's OPEN BOOK*
*One of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2024*
"An immersive feminist novel that meshes the personal and political to moving
effect" Preti Taneja, Financial Times
"A brilliant novel of the Palestinian diaspora. Funny and gritty, and bursting
with life and humour" Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian
Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the
eldest son, wearing boy's clothing and sharing the financial burden of head of
the household with her father.
Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells her daughter a story from her life. As
Maleka prepares to leave home to attend university abroad, her mother revisits
the past of their Palestinian family, tenderly describing their life in exile
in Kuwait and her own experiences of love and loss as she grows up.
Huzama Habayeb weaves a richly observed and affectionate portrait of a
Palestinian family displaced from their homeland, exploring with humour and
poise the love and betrayal that pursues Jihad and her family from Kuwait to
Jordan to Dubai. This is a novel whose words will resound long after you
finish the final page.
Translated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen
*One of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2024*
"An immersive feminist novel that meshes the personal and political to moving
effect" Preti Taneja, Financial Times
"A brilliant novel of the Palestinian diaspora. Funny and gritty, and bursting
with life and humour" Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian
Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the
eldest son, wearing boy's clothing and sharing the financial burden of head of
the household with her father.
Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells her daughter a story from her life. As
Maleka prepares to leave home to attend university abroad, her mother revisits
the past of their Palestinian family, tenderly describing their life in exile
in Kuwait and her own experiences of love and loss as she grows up.
Huzama Habayeb weaves a richly observed and affectionate portrait of a
Palestinian family displaced from their homeland, exploring with humour and
poise the love and betrayal that pursues Jihad and her family from Kuwait to
Jordan to Dubai. This is a novel whose words will resound long after you
finish the final page.
Translated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen
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