Tiller of Waters

Name: Tiller of Waters
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ISBN: 9789774248634

ISBN-10: 9774248635

ISBN-13: 9789774248634

Edition: N/A

Authors: Hoda Barakat, Marilyn Booth

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This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. The desolate, almost surreal, urban landscape is enriched by the unfolding of the family sagas of Niqula Mitri and his beloved Shamsa, the Kurdish maid. Mitri reminisces about his Egyptian mother and his father who came back to settle in Beirut after a long stay in Egypt. Both Mitri and his father are textile merchants and see the world through the code of cloth, from the intimacy of linen, velvet, and silk to the most impersonal of synthetics. Shamsa in turn relates her story, the myriad adventures of her parents and grandparents who moved from Iraqi Kurdistan to Beirut. Haunting…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 10/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English