Lady from Tel Aviv

ISBN-13: 9781846590917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 254 str.

Raba'I Al-Madhoun

Opis

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010."Will take you to the height of reading pleasure."--Elias KhouryWalid Dahman is going home. Returning to Gaza after nearly four decades in exile, he looks forward to reconnecting with the people and places he once left behind.Boarding the flight from London, Walid's life intersects with that of Dana, an Israeli actress, on her way back to Tel Aviv.As the night sky hurtles past, what each confides and conceals will expose the chasm between them in the land they both call home.Born in Palestine in 1945, Raba'i al-Madhoun is one of the Arab world's rising literary stars.

O autorze

Rabai al-Madhoun was born in the city of al-Majdal-Askalan (Ashkelon) in Palestine in 1945. His family fled in 19478 and settled in Khan Younis, Gaza. He studied at Alexandria University in Egypt and went on to work in Palestinian politics, moving between Amman, Damascus, Baghdad, Beirut and Moscow. Jailed and tortured in Syria in 1976, he moved to Beirut to work in journalism. He eventually moved to London, where he has lived for over twenty years, and worked for some of the most prominent Arab-language newspapers. He is currently an editor at the leading Arabic daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. His other works include a collection of short stories, an autobiographical novel and an academic study.