Mother of Strangers

Mother of Strangers
Suad Amiry
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Hardback
h210 x 139mm - 288pg
2 Aug 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780593316559
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Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story, follows the lives of a gifted 15-year-old mechanic, Subhi, and 13-year-old Shams, a peasant girl he hopes to marry one day. At first we see the prosperous life of this cosmopolitan city on the Mediterranean-with its old cinemas, lively cafes and brothels, open air markets, a bustling port and Jaffa' s world famous orange groves-through the lives of the families of Subhi and Shams, but particularly through Subhi. As the story evolves, the indiscriminate bombing of Jaffa and the displacements of Palestinian families begin, and we get a fascinating though dark close-up of how those who remained survived. This novel is a cinematic, though devastating, account of one of the most dramatic and least known chapters of Palestinian history. It is a portrait of a city and a people irrevocably changed.
SUAD AMIRY is an architect, founder and director of RIWAQ, Centre for Architectural Conservation, in Ramallah. She grew up in Amman, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, and got her B. A. in architecture at the American University of Beirut, her M. A. in Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and her Ph. D. from Edinburgh. Amiry participated in the 1991-1993 Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in Washington, D. C. She is the author of six books of non-fiction and several monographs on architecture, and was awarded Italy' s Viareggio-Versilia Prize in 2004 for Sharon and my Mother-in-Law. She lives in Ramallah.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593316559
Published: 2 Aug 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Random House Books
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 288

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