Najwa Barakat’s Oh, Salaam! tells the story of three friends—an explosives expert, a sniper, and a torturer—whose lives are transformed by their involvement in a civil war in an unnamed Arab country, and by their relationship with the novel’s anti-heroine, Salaam. Two of the friends live to see the end of the war but struggle to survive the arrival of peace and to make a life for themselves in a society that ...
Иногда за свои обещания приходится заплатить высокую цену… Эвелин Тейлор-Кларк доживает последние дни в лечебнице «Лесные поляны», расположенной в одном из сельских районов Англии. На первый взгляд она кажется добродушной пожилой леди, любящей проводить время за кроссвордами. Среди вещей, которые она привезла с собой, были письма мужу. В них она рассказывала о своей жизни, о принятых решениях и совершенных поступках. Ее прошлое хранит тайны, кот ...
Sherazade is seventeen, Algerian, and a ­runaway in Paris. This novel exposes with honesty and lyricism the various issues that affect a young woman living in a city which is both sophisticated and provincial, liberal and conservative, tolerant and prejudiced.In Paris, Sherazade is pursued by Julian, the son of French-Algerians who is an ardent Arabist. Pigeon-holed by Julian into the ­traditional exotic mold, Sherazade endeavo ...
In Other Lives, Myriam’s travels take her from her Shouf mountain village to Beirut, Melbourne and Paradise, Australia to Nairobi, Mombasa and Cape Town. Unwilling to be tied down by geography, language or men, Myriam forges a path through the world that is at once hers uniquely and also deeply informed by her life’s experiences. Again and again, she is drawn back to the Lebanon of her birth and childhood, only to find it no ...
The story is simple: a love affair ends badly. A woman and a man marry, then cruelty, infidelity, and divorce. But this novel tells their story twice, from opposing perspectives. Our sympathies are inverted; we don’t know whom to trust; the distinction between truth and deception blurs, and then seems simply to dissolve. The novel shifts deftly between endless oppositions: lover and beloved, angel and demon, master and slave, reader an ...
No matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and worldly—to “learn English”—it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in the Lebanese village of Zgharta, known for its “tough guys” and old-fashioned clan mentality. When the news of his father’s murder, a case of blood revenge, re ...
A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African LiteratureAt thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity, and when her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father’s five-year memorial service, she finds herself turning her scrutiny inward. In Nigeria, Deola encounters changes ...
«Край земли» – единственная документальная книга американского писателя Майкла Каннингема. Она посвящена Провинстауну, городу на полуострове Кейп-Код, ставшему в середине XX века богемным и туристическим центром Восточного побережья. Сам Каннингем попал на Кейп-Код в восьмидесятых и с тех пор часто возвращается туда. В своей книге он путешествует по любимым местам, от пляжей, болот и дюн до аптеки и ресторана, рассказывает об обычных жителях Про ...
