Only in London - Brossura

Al-Shaykh, Hanan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385721218 ISBN 13: 9780385721219

Casa editrice: Anchor, 2002

Riassunto

Meeting during a flight from Dubai to London, four people from different corners of the Arab world--Lamis, recently divorced from her wealthy Iraqi husband; Nicholas, a Sotheby's expert on Islamic daggers; Amira, a Moroccan prostitute; and Samir, an animal smuggler--find their lives continuing to intertwine amid London's Arab community. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Madcap, moving and always fascinating.” --The Washington Post

“As the story follows their adventures, some comic, some pathetic, each character finds a different London....[al-Shaykh’s] novel is funny and beautifully written. She has a perfect ear for dialogue and tone.” —Sunday Telegraph

“For all its deceptive lightness of touch, the novel teems with ideas: memory and exile, language, desire and identity, and the search for order in the chaos of a metropolis. It is also very funny. London...allows Shaykh to exercise her trenchant, at times ribald, wit.” —Literary Review

“Only in London offers an exquisite perspective of estrangement and recognition.” —The Observer

L'autore:

Hanan al-Shaykh was born and raised in Lebanon. She is the author of three novels—Women of Sand and Myrrh, The Story of Zahra, and Beirut Blues—as well as a collection of short stories, I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops. She currently lives in London with her husband and two children.

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• Editore: Anchor
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385721218
• ISBN 13: 9780385721219
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288