Damascus: Taste of a City [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Fadel, Marie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1906598290 ISBN 13: 9781906598297

Casa editrice: Haus Pub, 2010

Riassunto

Damascus was Rafik Schami's home for twenty-five years before he sought exile in Europe, and this "Pearl of the Orient" is still the city he loves more than any other. Thirty years later, and now a prize-winning novelist, Schami has written a culinary-cultural book on his old home town. Two seemingly insurmountable barriers stood in the way of the writing of it?time and geography. So Schami's sister Marie wandered through Damascus for a year on his behalf, relaying the curiosities, sounds, personalities, tastes, and smells of the Old City while Schami wrote them down, relishing the indelible and diverse mark left on Damascene cuisine by the city's multifarious history.

Rafik Schami is the critically acclaimed author of The Dark Side of Love (Interlink Books, 2009).

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Born in Damascus, Rafik Schami was exiled from Syria in 1971. He later co-founded the literary group Südwind in 1980 and was part of the PoLiKunst movement. Schami's books have been translated into 20 languages and is widely considered to be one of the leading figures of German Gastarbeiterliteratur (Guest-worker literature) or Migrantenliteratur (Migrant literature). He novel A Hand Full of Stars was published by Puffin in 1992 and was described by Publishers Weekly as "a glimpse into a different culture, a plea for the right to free speech, and a highly readable tale." He bestselling novel The Dark Side of Love was published in the US in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim, described by the Washington Times as a novel to 'enjoy and ponder ... achieved with considerable skill'. In the Starred Review/Pick of the Week in May last year, Publishers Weekly lauded him as a 'Major international talent'.

Rafik Schami was born in Damascus in 1946, came to Germany in 1971 and studied chemistry in Heidelberg. Today he is one of German's bestselling novelists, his works having been translated into over 20 languages and received numerous international awards.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Haus Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1906598290
• ISBN 13: 9781906598297
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 193
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile