The Occasional Virgin
Autor Hanan al-Shaykhen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408895689
ISBN-10: 1408895684
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408895684
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Challenging
stereotypes
of
Arab
women,The
Occasional
Virginfeatures
two
vividly
realised,
feisty
female
characters
and
fearlessly
addresses
questions
of
sexuality,
Islam
and
identity
Notă biografică
Hanan
Al
Shaykh
is
one
of
the
Arab
world's
most
aclaimed
writers.
She
was
born
in
Lebanon
and
brought
up
in
Beirut,
before
going
to
Cairo
to
receive
her
education.
She
was
a
successful
journalist
in
Beirut,
then
later
lived
in
the
Arabian
gulf,
before
moving
to
London.
She
is
the
author
of
the
short
story
collectionI
Sweep
the
Sun
off
Rooftopsand
her
novels
includeThe
Story
of
Zahra,Women
of
Sand
and
Myrrh,Beirut
Blues,Only
in
London,The
Locust
and
the
Bird,
a
memoir
of
her
mother's
life,
andOne
Thousand
and
One
Nights,
her
acclaimed
re
imagining
of
Arabic
folktales.
She
has
also
written
two
plays,Dark
AfternoonandPaper
Husband.
Her
work
has
been
translated
into
28
languages.
Hanan
Al-Shaykh
lives
in
London.Catherine
Cobham
is
a
lecturer
in
Arabic
and
head
of
the
department
of
Arabic
and
Persian
at
the
University
of
St
Andrews.
She
has
translated
a
number
of
contemporary
authors
from
Arabic,
including
Naguib
Mahfouz,
Mahmoud
Darwish,
Hanan
al-Shaykh,
Fuad
al-Takarli
and
Ghayath
Almadhoun.
Recenzii
Brilliant
.
Wise,
witty
and
unexpectedly
profound
One of the Arab worlds most important voices . The story of two women looking for love and discovering what they're prepared to do for it
Hanan Al-Shaykh is a sensation . Captures effortlessly the fearsome frankness with which women can talk to women about sex
Romantic and outrageous . Brilliant
One of the Arab worlds most important voices . The story of two women looking for love and discovering what they're prepared to do for it
Hanan Al-Shaykh is a sensation . Captures effortlessly the fearsome frankness with which women can talk to women about sex
Romantic and outrageous . Brilliant