The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story

ISBN-13: 9781408800843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Hanan Al-Shaykh

Opis

Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. Stories, poetry and film are her passion - and a beautiful boy called Muhammad. They fall in love before Kamila is forced into an arranged marriage at 14. This is her story written by her daughter, Hanan.

Recenzje

'It is an extraordinarily brave act for a writer to undertake to inhabit, fully and sympathetically, the life her mother lived before she was born, particularly when her mother was no jewel of wifely virtue' J.M. Coetzee

O autorze

Al-Shaykh, HananHanan al-Shaykh is one of the Arab world's most acclaimed contemporary writers. She was born and raised in Beirut, before going to Cairo to receive her education. She was a successful journalist in Beirut, then later lived in Saudi Arabia, before moving to London. She is the author of the collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Women of Sand and Myrrh, Beirut Blues and Only in London, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Most recently she published the acclaimed memoir of her mother's life, The Locust and the Bird. Hanan al-Shaykh lives in London.