Ghalya F T Al Said

Gebundenes Buch

The Madness of Despair

Beschreibung

Living in London, far from their Arab homelands, Nafie and his young wife Maliha become good friends with fellow exile Dr Nadim. The menâ s nostalgia for their old ways of living is in constant conflict with Malihaâ s ambition to live and love freely now sheâ s in London and she is ill-prepared for the fire of emotions that overcomes her.

Autor

Raphael Cohen is a professional translator and lexicographer who studied Arabic and Hebrew at Oxford University and the University of Chicago. He has translated a number of novels by contemporary Arab authors who include George Yarak, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Eslam Mosbah, Mohamed Salmawy and Mona Prince. Ghalya F T Al Said is a novelist from Oman who studied in both Oman and the UK, and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Warwick. She has published poems, short stories and six novels. Her novels focus on immigrants in foreign, usually Western, settings and their attempts to cope and adapt to conflicting concepts of belief and culture. The Madness of Despair is her first novel to have been translated into English from its original Arabic and is one of four set in the UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Banipal Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 136mm x 204mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781913043216
• ISBN-10: 1913043215
• Artikelnr.: 62227837