The Book of Khalid - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1177900327 ISBN 13 : 9781177900324

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"The Book of Khalid is a beautiful example of the lasting power of creative spirits in a complicated world ... masterful." —The Austin Chronicle "...prescient in its treatment of Arab-Western relations.” —The New Yorker “Remarkably relevant to the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East today.” —BBC News "Rihani’s style is lavish and unrestrained...the prose is ecstatic." —The Brooklyn Rail "This landmark novel...is artful and complex...Rihani encourages us to cherish our liberty, to seek material comfort and to engage our spiritual lives, to be patriotic yet remain critical of our failings." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer The first Arab-American novel and inspiration for Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, The Book of Khalid deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience. Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-the-century New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants—the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city—to often humiliating and comic result. Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress, and religious unity and tolerance in the Arab world. A call that has him, accidentally, almost founding a new religion—and almost becoming its first martyr, when his ideas incite the faithful to riot. Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature.

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Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1177900327
• ISBN 13: 9781177900324
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible