Miral Al-Tahawy: The Tent
The Tent
Buch
- Übersetzung: Anthony Calderbank
- AMER UNIV IN CAIRO PR, 11/1998
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9789774245428
- Bestellnummer: 8711918
- Umfang: 140 Seiten
- Gewicht: 204 g
- Maße: 200 x 124 mm
- Stärke: 11 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.11.1998
- Serie: Modern Arabic Writing
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The Tent is a beautifully written, powerful, and disturbing novel, featuring a host of women characters whose lives are subject to the will of a single, often absent, patriarch and his brutal, foul-mouthed mother. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the lives of the Bedouin and peasant women unfold, revealing the tragedy of the sonless mother and the intolerable heaviness of existence.Set against trackless deserts and star-filled night skies, the story tells of the young girl's relationship with her distant father and a foreign woman who is well-meaning but ultimately motivated by self-interest. It provides an intimate glimpse inside the women's quarters, and chronicles their pastimes and preoccupations, their stories and their songs.