Isbn: 9780704370067 - girls of alexandria (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 177 pages ; 23 cm. Summary:Girls of Alexandria takes us back to the world celebrated in al-Kharrat's earlier novel City of Saffron, that is the Alexandria of the thirties and forties. The protagonist is Mikha'il whose narration weaves and loops back to his earliest childhood days. The girls of Alexandria inhabit every corner of his beloved city. They are as various as women can be; there is Mona his neighbour, Susu the schoolgirl at the tram-stop; there is the Madonna he encounters in the potters' yard. There is Sylvana harried into wartime prostitution, Nagiya whose baby shares his name, Rawiya the near-feral-girl-child of the oasis. The deeds of heroines from books and films, childhood adventures, news articles past and present, and the voices of people long dead are all mingled together. It is not about any particular one of these Alexandrian girls, but of the one woman who is all of them. 'However many she is, she is one; however fleeting, she is eternal.' -- Provided by publisher.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. (DJ and Text are clean, neat ant tight.).