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The Doves Necklace
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ISBN-13:
9781468316223
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
14.08.2018
Seiten:
480
Autor:
Raja Alem
Gewicht:
460 g
Format:
203x141x47 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Raja Alem is the award-winning author of ten novels as well as numerous plays, short stories, and essays. She is the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, for The Dove's Necklace. The book won the LiBerator Prize for best book translated into German. Alem's work has been published in seven languages. She is a member of PEN International. Together with her sister, artist Shadia Alem, she established an Educational and Creative Center to promote creativity and provide books for the girls of Mecca. She was born in Mecca and currently lives in Paris.
"When a dead woman is discovered in Abu Al Roos, one of Mecca's many alleys, no one will claim the body because they are ashamed by her nakedness. As we follow Detective Nassir's investigation of the case, the secret life of the holy city of Mecca is revealed. Tackling powerful issues with beautiful and evocative writing, Raja Alem reveals a city--and a civilization--at once beholden to brutal customs, and reckoning (uneasily) with new traditions. Told from a variety of perspectives--including that of Abu Al Roos itself--The Dove's Necklace is a virtuosic work of literature, and an ambitious portrait of a changing city that deserves our attention"