Learning English: A Novel - Brossura

Da'if, Rashid

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1566566746 ISBN 13: 9781566566742

Casa editrice: Interlink Pub Group Inc, 2007

Riassunto

No matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and worldly - to "learn English" - it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in the Lebanese village of Zgharta, known for its "tough guys" and old-fashioned clan mentality. When the news of his father's murder, a case of blood revenge, reaches him by chance through a newspaper report, it drags him inescapably back into the world of his past. Suddenly he is plunged once again into the endless questions that plagued his childhood.
The accomplished al-Daif hooks his readers from page one of this novel - partly with fragments of suspense-filled plot and partly with his typically idiosyncratic narrator, whose bizarre stories, comical asides, and uncannily perceptive comments on human nature lead us through this tantalizing, funny, and sober book about the hold the past has on Lebanon, and on us all.

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Book by alDaif Rachid

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Interlink Pub Group Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1566566746
• ISBN 13: 9781566566742
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 161