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The Locust and the Bird
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $24.95
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $24.95
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Story of Zahra
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 15, 1996
Price: $15.00
With more than 21,000 copies in print of Women Of Sand And Myrrh, and more than 15,000 copies of The Story Of Zahra, Hanan al-Shaykh is the best known and most admired woman writer of the Arab world. The paperback publication of Zahra will bring this passionate and courageous novel to a much larger group of readers. Its... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: December 15, 1996
Price: $15.00
With more than 21,000 copies in print of Women Of Sand And Myrrh, and more than 15,000 copies of The Story Of Zahra, Hanan al-Shaykh is the best known and most admired woman writer of the Arab world. The paperback publication of Zahra will bring this passionate and courageous novel to a much larger group of readers. Its... Read more >
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Women of Sand and Myrrh
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $15.00
A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1992
Price: $15.00
A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. Read more >
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I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 17, 1998
Price: $13.95
Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 17, 1998
Price: $13.95
Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short... Read more >
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Beirut Blues
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1996
Price: $15.00
With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level.
The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: July 1, 1996
Price: $15.00
With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level.
The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the... Read more >
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Only in London
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesn’t fully understand. Once safely on British soil... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $13.00
Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesn’t fully understand. Once safely on British soil... Read more >
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The Locust and the Bird
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $24.95
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic... Read more >
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $24.95
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Only in London
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
From one of the most highly regarded contemporary Arab writers, a wonderfully comic and touching novel about four people seeking love and liberty in London’s burgeoning Arab community
On a flight from Dubai to London a sudden turbulence throws together four people from different corners of the Arab world: beautiful, lost Lamis... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
From one of the most highly regarded contemporary Arab writers, a wonderfully comic and touching novel about four people seeking love and liberty in London’s burgeoning Arab community
On a flight from Dubai to London a sudden turbulence throws together four people from different corners of the Arab world: beautiful, lost Lamis... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Locust and the Bird
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $15.95
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $15.95
“One of the most daring female writers of the Middle East” (San Francisco Chronicle) gives us an extraordinary work of nonfiction: an account of her mother’s remarkable life, at the core of which is a tale of undying love.
In a masterly act of literary transformation, Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic... Read more >
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