Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948.
Through the lives of Mahmud, elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled’s grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another. Khaled’s remarkable white mare, Hamama, and her descendants feel and share the family’s struggles and as a siege grips Hadiya, it falls to Khaled to save his people from a descending tyranny.
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Tentang Penulis
Nancy Roberts is an award-winning translator of a number of Arabic novels including Salwa Bakr’s The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, and Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses (Hoopoe, 2016), The Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2014), and Gaza Weddings (Hoopoe, 2017), for which she was awarded the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois.
Bahasa Inggris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman 664 ● ISBN 9781617971754 ● Ukuran file 1.1 MB ● Penterjemah Nancy Roberts ● Penerbit The American University in Cairo Press ● Kota Cairo ● Negara EG ● Diterbitkan 2016 ● Diunduh 24 bulan ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 5959484 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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