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No Road to Paradise: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Hassan Daoud
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Description for No Road to Paradise: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Paperback. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Translator(s): Booth, Marilyn. Series: Hoopoe Fiction. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; FA; FW; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 25. .
When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diagnosed with cancer, the illness he fears and has expected for years, he takes the radical decision to abandon the life he inherited from his father. He was persuaded to wear the robe and turban in his youth to preserve the family tradition and entered into an arranged marriage. While his grandfather and father were once powerful imams, he displays no interest in the mosque. The wife, for whom he feels no affection, attends to her chores and nurses his father, now sick and bedridden, in his house. Though ... Read more
When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diagnosed with cancer, the illness he fears and has expected for years, he takes the radical decision to abandon the life he inherited from his father. He was persuaded to wear the robe and turban in his youth to preserve the family tradition and entered into an arranged marriage. While his grandfather and father were once powerful imams, he displays no interest in the mosque. The wife, for whom he feels no affection, attends to her chores and nurses his father, now sick and bedridden, in his house. Though ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hoopoe Fiction
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Hoopoe Fiction
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774168178
SKU
V9789774168178
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About Hassan Daoud
Hassan Daoud, born in Beirut in 1950, holds a master's degree in Arabic literature and has taught creative writing at the Lebanese American University. He is the editorial director of al-Mudun news website and is on the editorial board of the quarterly magazine Kalamon. He is the author of three short story collections and ten novels. No Road to Paradise ... Read more
Reviews for No Road to Paradise: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
"Hassan Daoud is one of Lebanon's most important living writers."
Max Weiss, Princeton University "The work's insights are Proustian in their precision. . . . The lucid, calm, uncluttered style gives the book a unique voice."
Humphrey Davies, translator of The Yacoubian Building "A unique novel par excellence."
Rasheed El-Enany, Exeter University
Max Weiss, Princeton University "The work's insights are Proustian in their precision. . . . The lucid, calm, uncluttered style gives the book a unique voice."
Humphrey Davies, translator of The Yacoubian Building "A unique novel par excellence."
Rasheed El-Enany, Exeter University