Second Person Singular - Brossura

Kashua, Sayed

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802121209 ISBN 13: 9780802121202

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2013

Riassunto

A U.S. release of an award-winning novel by the creator of the Israeli sitcom, Arab Labor, follows the experiences of a highly respected Jerusalem attorney who embarks on a jealous search upon finding a love letter in his wife's handwriting.

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L'autore:

Sayed Kashua was born in 1975 and is the author of the novels Dancing Arabs andLet It Be Morning, which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Kashua writes a weekly column forHaaretz and is a writer and the creator of Arab Labor, one of Israel's most popular sitcoms. He lives in Jerusalem with his family.

Product Description:

"Second Person Singular" is a story of two men living parallel lives, connected by one woman and the truth surrounding a love letter. One is a successful yet cripplingly insecure lawyer, referred to as "the lawyer" throughout, the other a young man attempting to form an identity. Based in Jerusalem in a split society, both men are Arabs trying to come to terms with their culture and the Israeli perceptions of the Arab culture. The lawyer's account spans the short time surrounding his discovery. The young man's story progresses seven plus years to that time, slowly uncovering the core mystery of the letter found by chance- or fate. The lawyer must confront the question, can you ever truly know someone, while the young man lives one answer: identity is created and modeled by a divided society. The lawyer enjoys reading classics and often stops at a local used bookshop, though always claims they are gifts. He wants to seem sophisticated, a complex created by his insecurities and the stereotypes Israelis project onto Arabs. On this fateful evening, the lawyer buys Leo Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata." After a book club dinner party, which focuses more on proving status and wealth, ends. The guests, all Arab, want to seem elite and cultured, Western to match the Israelis. Retiring to his daughter's bedroom, where he always sleeps since his young son wakes him, the lawyer starts reading The Kreutzer Sonata. A piece of paper falls out. It's a love letter. He recognizes the handwriting. It's his wife's. Consumed by blinding rage, the lawyer charges into the kitchen and grabs a knife. All he can think of is betrayal, what neighbors will say and if they already know, humiliated and shamed by a woman he now believes he doesn't know. Storming upstairs, bursting into the bedroom they no longer share, the lawyer glares down on his sleeping wife, sprawled across the bed, sleeping while she can. He thinks of strangling her and watching the life drain out of her eyes. He thinks of he

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0802121209
• ISBN 13: 9780802121202
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 346