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The Occasional Virgin
On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their vacation unfolds, their …
Beirut Blues
With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further …
Mazya Ammichi Goshta
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I ett icke namngivet arabiskt ökenland möts det gamla och det nya i en ohelig allians. Den nya penningekonomin drar till sig människor från världens alla hörn.Kvinnorna från …
One Thousand and One Nights
One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. …
Beirut Blues
With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further …
Women of Sand and Myrrh
A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab world's leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state.
I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers …
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her …
Locust and the Bird
A richly woven and breathtaking memoir from the perspective of the author's own mother: a Radio 4 Book of the Week'It is an extraordinarily brave act for a writer to undertake to …
Women of Sand and Myrrh
In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, four women from different social and cultural backgrounds tell their story. There is Suha, an educated Lebanese woman brought to the desert by …
Occasional Virgin
Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it's only on their rarely …