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Only in London
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesn?t fully understand. Once safely on British soil, Lamis and Nicholas fall in love, Samir chases... more...
The Locust and the Bird
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man?and was thus forced to choose between her children and her lover. As the narrative unfolds through the years?from... more...
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 16.00Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh --which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short stories--eleven of which are appearing in... more...
Beirut Blues
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues , published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level. The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos... more...
Women of Sand and Myrrh
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. more...
One Thousand and One Nights
A&C Black 2011; US$ 12.99Oneof the worlds great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across... more...
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