eBook The Story of Zahra: A Novel ePub

From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a bold, witty and highly contemporary novel about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London.

The novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, author most . The Story of Zahra : It is Lebanon, my childhood, my youth, my pain and my departure out into the world

The novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, author most recently of The Occasional Virgin, avoids reading books longer than 800 pages unless they are written by my friends. What novel about the Arab world do you especially recommend to Western readers, and what nonfiction book? I don’t think there exists such a novel about the Arab world as a whole - each Arab country has its own novel. The Story of Zahra : It is Lebanon, my childhood, my youth, my pain and my departure out into the world. Is there a book you wish you could write but feel you can’t or never will? Yes: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battutah.

The Story of Zahra book. The paperback publication of "Zahra" will bring this passionate and courageous novel to a much larger group of readers. Its haunting story of a young Lebanese woman who attempts to stem the violence in Beirut by initiating a sexual liaison with a sniper has "lifted the corner of a dark curtain" ( "Sunday Telegraph" ) from a world that fascinates us al. "The Story Of Zahra" is a classic by any standards. - "Village Voice Literary Supplement.

Category: Literary Fiction Women’s Fiction Military Fiction. Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short-story collections I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops and One Thousand and One Nights; the novels The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues. ore about Hanan al-Shaykh.

Hanan al-Shaykh (Arabic: حنان الشيخ‎; born November 12, 1945, Beirut) is an acclaimed Lebanese author of contemporary literature. Hanan al-Shaykh's family background is that of a strict Shi'a family. Her father and brother exerted strict social control over her during her childhood and adolescence. She attended the Almillah primary school for Muslim girls where she received a traditional education for Muslim girls, before continuing her education at the Ahliah school.

The Story of Zahra Paperback – 15 December 1996. by Hanan Al-Shaykh (Author). The paperback publication of "Zahra will bring this passionate and courageous novel to a much larger group of readers. Its haunting story of a young Lebanese woman who attempts to stem the violence in Beirut by initiating a sexual liaison with a sniper has "lifted the corner of a dark curtain" ("Sunday Telegraph ) from a world that fascinates us all. See all Product description.

Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops; the novels One Thousand and One Nights, The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about.

Hanan al-Shaykh, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops; the novels One Thousand and One Nights, The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues, and Only in London; and a memoir about her mother, The Locust and the Bird.

The paperback publication of "Zahra" will bring this passionate and courageous novel to a much larger group of readers. Its haunting story of a young Lebanese woman who attempts to stem the violence in Beirut by initiating a sexual liaison with a sniper has "lifted the corner of a dark curtain" ( "Sunday Telegraph" ) from a world that fascinates us all. " "The Story Of Zahra" is a classic by any standards. This rich tale mesmerizes with its frank sexuality and scenes of war-torn Beirut.

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