Spectres - Couverture souple

Ashour, Radwa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906697256 ISBN 13 : 9781906697259

Editeur : Arabia Books Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Spectres tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born on the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their days at work, their married and unmarried lives, and the two books they are writing, both called Specters. This lively metafictional novel is a mix of genres: part autobiography, part oral history, part documentary, part fiction. As the narrative moves back and forth between Radwa s novel Spectres and Shagar s history Spectres (about the massacre at Deir Yassin, a Palestinian Arab village near Jerusalem in April 1948), Ashour unites the projects of history and literature and blurs the boundaries between the personal and the political in one compellingly readable meditation on contemporary life in a fractured world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Radwa Ashour, a highly acclaimed Egyptian writer and scholar, is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, memoir, and criticism; among them, Siraaj and Granada have been published in English. She is a recipient of the Constantine Cavafy Prize for Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arabia Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906697256
• ISBN 13: 9781906697259
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible