BOOKS - As Though She Were Sleeping (Rainmaker Translations)
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768447
768447
As Though She Were Sleeping (Rainmaker Translations)
Author: Elias Khoury
Year: January 1, 2007
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2007
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English
Milia's response to her new husband Mansour and to the Arab World of 1947 is to close her eyes and drift into parallel worlds. Identities shift. Present, past, and future mingle and she finds herself able to converse with the dead and foresee the future. As the novel progresses in glimpses, Milia's dreams become more navigable than the strange and obstinate and "reality and " in which she finds herself, and the two realms grow ever more entangled. This wondrous tapestry of love, faith, history, poetry, and vision cuts to the very heart of the deep-rooted conflicts of the region and breaks new literary ground.