Code Name: Butterfly - Couverture souple

Bsharat, Ahlam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191110702X ISBN 13 : 9781911107026

Editeur : Neem Tree Press Limited, 2016

Synopsis

Translated from Arabic, Code Name: Butterfly is a captivating YA novel that transcends language to deliver a tale of love, loyalty, and coming of age in the midst of upheaval.

Life in occupied Palestine isn't easy. Butterfly is a spirited teenager grappling with the complexities of growing up. Tinged with irony and fueled by unwavering idealism, she navigates a maze of adult duplicities, challenging friendships, and volatile sibling relationships.

Butterfly confronts some of life's most profound questions: Are the whispers of her father's potential alliance with the occupiers true? And will Nizar ever return her feelings of affection?

Thrust into a whirlwind of emotions and doubts, Butterfly learns to face the storms of young adulthood where 'honour' becomes a word charged with peril and meaning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ahlam Bsharat is a Palestinian writer who grew up in a village in Northern Palestine. She completed her Master’s Degree in Arabic Literature at An-Najah National University in Nablus. Besides poetry, picture books, short stories, novels and memoirs, she has written a number of television and radio scripts. Her books have received many awards and recommendations. Ismee Alharakee Farasha (translated into English as Code Name: Butterfly) was included in the IBBY Honour List for 2012, a biennial selection of outstanding, recently published books from more than seventy countries. Ismee Alharakee Farasha and Ashjaar lil-Naas al-Ghaa’ibeen (translated into English as Trees for the Absentees) were both runners-up for the Etisalat Award For Arabic Children’s Literature in 2013. Code Name: Butterfly was also shortlisted for the UK-based Palestine Book Awards in 2017. Ahlam has been active in numerous cultural forums, and her craft has taken her to Belgium, France and Spain, where she was artist in residence. She has also led many creative writing workshops for children and adults, including at the Emirates Literature Festival in Dubai.

Nancy Roberts is an Arabic-to-English literary translator whose translations include Salwa Bakr’s The Man From Bashmour, for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, Ezzat El Kamhawi’s prize-winning House of the Wolf, Laila Aljohani's Days of Ignorance and Ahlem Mosteghanemi’s The Dust of Promises and Chaos of the Sses.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Neem Tree Press Limited
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191110702X
• ISBN 13: 9781911107026
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible