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The Occasional Virgin

Autor Hanan al-Shaykh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 aug 2019
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 snatched holidays that the friends can catch up. As they swim, drink and talk by the glittering Italian Riviera, Huda and Yvone ponder just how complicated it is to be free - and the eternal mysteries of love, sex, and getting a guy to call you back. Then, amid the glitz and chatter of London's Mayfair, a chance encounter brings their past rushing back. But Huda has a wicked trick her sleeve.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408895689
ISBN-10: 1408895684
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Challenging stereotypes of Arab women,The Occasional Virginfeatures two vividly realised, feisty female characters and fearlessly addresses questions of sexuality, Islam and identity

Notă biografică

Hanan Al Shaykh is one of the Arab world's most aclaimed writers. She was born in Lebanon and brought up in Beirut, before going to Cairo to receive her education. She was a successful journalist in Beirut, then later lived in the Arabian gulf, before moving to London. She is the author of the short story collectionI Sweep the Sun off Rooftopsand her novels includeThe Story of Zahra,Women of Sand and Myrrh,Beirut Blues,Only in London,The Locust and the Bird, a memoir of her mother's life, andOne Thousand and One Nights, her acclaimed re imagining of Arabic folktales. She has also written two plays,Dark AfternoonandPaper Husband. Her work has been translated into 28 languages. Hanan Al-Shaykh lives in London.Catherine Cobham is a lecturer in Arabic and head of the department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews. She has translated a number of contemporary authors from Arabic, including Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Hanan al-Shaykh, Fuad al-Takarli and Ghayath Almadhoun.

Recenzii

Brilliant . Wise, witty and unexpectedly profound
One of the Arab worlds most important voices . The story of two women looking for love and discovering what they're prepared to do for it
Hanan Al-Shaykh is a sensation . Captures effortlessly the fearsome frankness with which women can talk to women about sex
Romantic and outrageous . Brilliant