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Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Ezzedine C. Fishere
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Description for Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Paperback. A rich and sensitive novel about loss and alienation, about life lived in exile, and about the search for home, shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Translator(s): Peate, John. Series: Hoopoe Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 1KBBEY; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 23. .
On the eve of Salma's twenty-first birthday, friends and family travel to New York for a celebration reluctantly organized by her grandfather Darwish. As the guests make their way to the party, each journey takes on a greater significance than a simple trip to the city, as they find themselves examining their pasts, their relationships to one another, and to the country in which they live. Between Cairo and New York, Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge paints a vivid portrait of a fragmented Arab-American family, one struggling to become whole again and to let go of the past.
On the eve of Salma's twenty-first birthday, friends and family travel to New York for a celebration reluctantly organized by her grandfather Darwish. As the guests make their way to the party, each journey takes on a greater significance than a simple trip to the city, as they find themselves examining their pasts, their relationships to one another, and to the country in which they live. Between Cairo and New York, Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge paints a vivid portrait of a fragmented Arab-American family, one struggling to become whole again and to let go of the past.
Product Details
Publisher
Hoopoe Fiction
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Hoopoe Fiction
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774168192
SKU
V9789774168192
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About Ezzedine C. Fishere
Ezzedine C. Fishere is an acclaimed Egyptian writer, academic, and diplomat. He has written numerous successful and bestselling novels and he also writes political articles for Arabic, English, and French news outlets. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College in the US, where he lives. John Peate is a translator, university lecturer, academic researcher, and language consultant based in the UK. ... Read more
Reviews for Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)
Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge is a remarkable novel for its style, its plot, and its reach into the experience of straddling two worlds and two states of being. Banipal Ezzedine Choukri Fishere ... taking his literary career to new heights.
Egypt Independent
Egypt Independent