Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries - Brossura

Amiry, Suad

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1400096499 ISBN 13: 9781400096497

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006

Riassunto

A collection of journal entries, e-mail correspondence, vignettes, and anecdotes offers an irreverent portrait of the miseries of daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah, dealing with curfews, roadblocks, violence, and a mother-in-law trapped during a forty-two-day curfew. Reprint.

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"Full of marvelously detailed, colorful human complication, as funny as it is galling and heartbreaking." —Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America

"Sharply, gloriously different . . . The seemingly casual narrative . . . works its way into your heart without asking you to hate anyone: just to hate a situation." —The Scotsman

"Powerful. . . . Extremely funny." —The Sunday Times (London)

"A literary protest done with great wit, skill, and passion. Not only is it really funny but it shows the kind of courage, vision, and humanity needed to bring peace to the Middle East." —Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues

L'autore:

Suad Amiry is an architect and the founder and director of RIWAQ, Centre for Architectural Conservation, in Ramallah. She grew up in Amman, Damascus, Beirut, and Cairo, and studied architecture at the American University of Beirut and at the Universities of Michigan and Edinburgh. Amiry participated in the 1991—1993 Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in Washington, D.C., and from 1994 to 1996 was assistant deputy minister and director general of the Ministry of Culture in Palestine. She is the author of several books on architecture and was awarded Italy’s Viareggio-Versilia Prize in 2004 for this book. She lives in Ramallah.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400096499
• ISBN 13: 9781400096497
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224