Disciples Of Passion

Informationen zum Autor Hoda Barakat has received critical acclaim in the Arab world and abroad. Three of her books have been translated into French! and she was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Prizefor her novel! The Tiller of Waters! and the Al-Nagid Award for The Stone of Laughter. Marilyn Booth is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext Disciples of Passion chronicles the civil war in Lebanon through the troubled and sometimes quasi-hallucinatory mind of a young man who has experienced kidnapping! hostage exchange! and hospital internment. His fragmented narrative probes the uncertainties of political testimonial and ascriptions of responsibility in wartime.

Product details

• Authors: Hoda Barakat, Hoda/ Booth Barakat
• Assisted by: Marilyn Booth (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2005
• EAN: 9780815608332
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0833-2
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Tran
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature