Time of white horses / Ibrahim Nasrallah ; translated by Nancy Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naṣr Allāh, Ibrāhīm.

Contributor:

Roberts, Nancy N.

Series:

Modern Arabic literature

Standardized Title:

Zaman al-khuyūl al-bayḍāʼ. English

زمن الخيول البيضاء. إنجليزي

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction.

Palestinian Arabs--Fiction.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestine--History--Fiction.

Palestine.

Arabic fiction--Translations into English.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

x, 634 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2012]

Language Note:

Translated from Arabic.

Summary:

This comi-tragic fictional-factual saga takes place in the environs of Jerusalem, from late Ottoman times to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. A vivid picture of Palestinian villagers' preoccupations and aspirations--their ties to their land, to their animals, and to one another. Relives the realities of the Palestinian village in the early twentieth century, Zionist colonization and its impact on Arab rural life, the trauma that accompanied the British mandate and its aftermath, the Palestinians' struggle to maintain the autonomy and dignity they had known for centuries on end, and the beginnings of life under the Zionist state.

Notes:

"Originally published in Arabic in 2007 by al-Muʼassasah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Nashr as Zaman al-khuyul al-bayda'."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 626-628).

ISBN:

9789774164897

977416489X

OCLC:

733232282