The crane / Halim Barakat ; translated by Bassam Frangieh, Roger Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barakat, Halim Isber.

Contributor:

Frangieh, Bassam K.

Allen, Roger, 1942-

Series:

Modern Arabic literature

Standardized Title:

Ṭāʼir al-ḥawm. English

طائر الحوم. إنجليزي http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008161120

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Barakat, Halim Isber.

Cranes (Birds).

Syrian Americans.

Barakat, Halim Isber--Translations into English.

Syrian Americans--Fiction.

Cranes (Birds)--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

157 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2008.

Summary:

In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, with the image of flying cranes and in particular one wounded bird as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past and its impact upon his life. The narrator then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences of American college life in the 1960s. He describes his participation in the political protests during that fraught decade, and goes on to depict his later life in the American capital of Washington DC and its surroundings. The link between narrator and author is clearly a close one, and yet the careful way in which the narrative's sequence is constructed allows the reader to invoke the world of the imagination in interpreting this nostalgic account of a Middle Eastern childhood and its international aftermath.

Notes:

Novel.

ISBN:

9789774161414

9774161416

OCLC:

256038637