Tale of a Certain Orient - Softcover

Hatoum, Milton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074756907X ISBN 13: 9780747569077

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

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Críticas

'A chamber quartet contained within the covers of a book ... A profoundly textured work that is sophisticated, elegant, unusually vivid and intriguingly convincing' Irish Times 'Perceptive and captivating' Sunday Herald 'A singular achievement' Irish Times 'Delicate and subtle' New York Times

Reseña del editor

When Emilie, the matriarch of a large and unruly family of Lebanese emigrants, is on her deathbed, her granddaughter must return to Manaus and her childhood home to say goodbye. Here, in the heart of the Amazon, she becomes enveloped in memories, as family and friends gather round to tell their own tales. We hear of how Uncle Hanna first left Lebanon for Brazil early in the twentieth century; of Soraya Angela, the illegitimate deaf-mute child whose short life was blighted by fear and prejudice; of Uncle Emir and his solitary walk that ended at the bottom of the river; of Hakim's wranglings with the Arabic language; of the two unnameable, fiery-tongued brothers; of the German photographer and constant friend Dorner, roaming Manaus with his Hasselblad; and at the centre of it all lies Emilie: loving, interfering, luminous.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 074756907X
• ISBN 13: 9780747569077
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224