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Before the Queen Falls Asleep Huzama Habayeb

Before the Queen Falls Asleep par Huzama Habayeb

Before the Queen Falls Asleep Huzama Habayeb

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Résumé

A daring and captivating novel about a Palestinian family, told with love, wisdom and black humour

Before the Queen Falls Asleep Résumé

Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer Huzama Habayeb

*As featured as an editor's pick on Radio Four's OPEN BOOK*

*One of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2024*

"A brilliant novel of the Palestinian diaspora. Funny and gritty, and bursting with life and humour" Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian

Born a girl to parents who expected a boy, Jihad grows up treated like the eldest son, wearing boy's clothing and sharing the financial burden of head of the household with her father.

Now middle-aged, each night Jihad tells her daughter a story from her life. As Maleka prepares to leave home to attend university abroad, her mother revisits the past of their Palestinian family, tenderly describing their life in exile in Kuwait and her own experiences of love and loss as she grows up.

Huzama Habayeb weaves a richly observed and affectionate portrait of a Palestinian family displaced from their homeland, exploring with humour and poise the love and betrayal that pursues Jihad and her family from Kuwait to Jordan to Dubai. This is a novel whose words will resound long after you finish the final page.

Translated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen

Before the Queen Falls Asleep Avis

A brilliant novel of the Palestinian diaspora. Funny and gritty, and bursting with life and humour. -- Ahdaf Soueif * Guardian *
Huzama Habayeb describes many worlds within one world. She weaves the East and the West within the Middle East, and explores the feeling of living in exile even when at home. She cares for the lives of children and women, always filled with difficulties and great hopes, in a compassionate and magical language. While searching for a solution in despair, she holds up a new mirror to the world, a mirror that everyone is invited to look at and question themselves -- Burhan Sonmez

À propos de Huzama Habayeb

Huzama Habayeb is a Palestinian author and journalist. She was born in Kuwait, where she lived and worked as a journalist until she was forced to leave by the Gulf War. She settled in Jordan, establishing her reputation first as a short story writer, publishing her four prizewinning collections between 1992 and 2001, before publishing her first novel in 2007. Her first novel to be translated into English, Velvet, won the 2017 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and the 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Before the Queen Falls Asleep is her second novel to be translated into English.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013627767
9781529415650
1529415659
Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer Huzama Habayeb
Huzama Habayeb
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Quercus Publishing
2024-03-28
288
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