A House At The Edge Of Tears (Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Paperback)) - Softcover

Khoury-Ghata, Venus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555974341 ISBN 13: 9781555974343

Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S., 2005

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Reseña del editor

In the city of Beirut, five shabby dwellings circle a courtyard in which stands a pomegranate tree weeping blood red fruit. The residents hear screams in the night as a boy is beaten by his father for masturbating in his sleep. A crime not worthy of the punishment - the neighbours gossip and decide he must have tried to rape his sister. The poems he writes are perhaps an even greater crime to his father, but ultimately a gift to his eldest sister, who narrates their story with a combination of brutal truth and stunning prose.

Biografía del autor

V nus Khoury-Ghata's She Says, which was also translated by Marilyn Hacker, was recently published in the United States a named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

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• Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1555974341
• ISBN 13: 9781555974343
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 111