Hanan al-Shaykh, Author, Catherine Cobham, Translator, Hanan Shaykh, Author , trans. from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham. Pantheon $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-42133-4
A chance meeting of four strangers on a turbulent plane ride from Dubai to London sets the stage for this fourth novel by acclaimed Lebanese author al-Shaykh (Women of Sand and Myrrh; Beirut Blues). Lamis is an Iraqi woman who has just divorced her...
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Hanan al-Shaykh, Author, Catherine Cobham, Translator, Hanan Shaykh, Author Anchor Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-42358-8
Four intertwined first-person narratives use poetic language to paint a hard-edged picture of an unnamed wealthy Arab desert country full of luxurious houses hidden behind high walls and women hidden behind veils. These women cannot drive or travel...
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Hanan al-Shaykh, Author, Hanan Shaykh, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-37820-0
Al-Shaykh, a Lebanese journalist and author of six novels (including Story of Zahra
), finally succumbs to her illiterate mother Kamila’s haranguing to write her story. The result falls somewhere between memoir and biography as she recreates...
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Hanan al-Shaykh, Author, Hanan Shaykh, Author, Al-Shaykh Hanan, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-385-47381-1
Although present, sex is not quite the driving force here that it was in Lebanese writer al-Shaykh's earlier books, Women of Sand and Myrrh and The Story of Zahra. Instead, al-Shaykh has substituted war. This is still a strangely intimate meditation
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Hanan al-Shaykh, Author, Peter Ford, Translator, Hanan Shaykh, Author Anchor Books $18 (215p) ISBN 978-0-385-47130-5
Banned in several Arab nations, this rich tale mesmerizes with its frank sexuality and scenes of war-torn Beirut. Zahra is a misfit mistreated by her mother, who brings her along to secret meetings with a lover, and by her father, a harsh...
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Hanan Shaykh, Author, Hanan al-Shaykh, Author, Catherine Cobham, Translator Anchor Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-49127-3
In the first of these 17 finely honed stories, a stifled Lebanese wife feigns madness in order to get a divorce from her obtuse but, it turns out, surprisingly resilient and devoted husband. Asked her age, Fatin replies, ""The age of madness."" This
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