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Love Is Like Water and Other Stories (Arab American Writing)
Samia Serageldin
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Description for Love Is Like Water and Other Stories (Arab American Writing)
Hardcover. A collection of stories that reveal one woman's exploration of identity, finding it in both the sweeping backdrop of Egyptian history and the quotidian exchanges with friends and family. Series: Arab American Writing. Num Pages: 176 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 298.
Like the author of this remarkable collection of thirteen linked stories, the protagonist, Nadia, was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, and immigrated to the United States. Samia Serageldin draws her characters out with subtlety and control, moving from the narrator's grandmother's garden house in Cairo to the suburbs of North Carolina, yielding powerful portraits of cultural dislocation, faith, and multi generational conflicts. As the narratives shift in time and place, they unfold through memory. In ""The Zawiya,"" Nadia reflects on the change in women's space from the coiffeur's salon to a religious pulpit as she revisits a ... Read more
Like the author of this remarkable collection of thirteen linked stories, the protagonist, Nadia, was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, and immigrated to the United States. Samia Serageldin draws her characters out with subtlety and control, moving from the narrator's grandmother's garden house in Cairo to the suburbs of North Carolina, yielding powerful portraits of cultural dislocation, faith, and multi generational conflicts. As the narratives shift in time and place, they unfold through memory. In ""The Zawiya,"" Nadia reflects on the change in women's space from the coiffeur's salon to a religious pulpit as she revisits a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Arab American Writing
Number of Pages
151
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609216
SKU
V9780815609216
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About Samia Serageldin
Samia Serageldin was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, and immigrated to the United States. She is the author of an autobiographical first novel, The Cairo House (Syracuse University Press) and a historical novel, The Naqib's Daughter, as well as short fiction and essays on Islam, women, and Arab-American literature. Serageldin divides her time between North Carolina, Egypt, ... Read more
Reviews for Love Is Like Water and Other Stories (Arab American Writing)
I admire the irony, sophistication, and smoothness of the narrative voice; we automatically like, and - more importantly - trust this narrator. - Lee Smith, best-selling author of The Last Girls