Voices : a novel / Soleiman Fayyad ; translated from the Arabic with an introduction by Hosam Aboul-Ela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fayyāḍ, Sulaymān.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aswāṭ. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Genre:

Love stories.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

112 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Marion Boyars Publishers, 1993.

Summary:

Hamid Ibn-Mustafa Al-Bahairi left the village of his birth at the age of ten and went to seek his fortune in Europe. Paris made him rich, and he is now a successful business man, married to an educated cosmopolitan French woman. But when he decides to visit his original family home in the eastern region of the Nile Delta, he unwittingly condemns both his wife and the village to become locked in a series of frustrating and disturbing encounters - cultural, religious and.

Emotional - which are politely glossed over at first, until they finally become the makings of grim tragedy. Told through the voices of the principal local protagonists in this tense drama (the officials, Hamid and his brother, the fiercely jealous women, the only French-speaking villager - but never the visiting Simone), Voices gives an objective but deeply compassionate glimpse of people's lives thrown into confusion. The familiar and the strange continually press upon.

Each other as the villagers struggle to come to terms with what was originally intended to be the joyful return of a favorite son.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Fayyāḍ, Sulaymān. Aswāṭ. English. Voices.

ISBN:

0714529451

9780714529455

OCLC:

25747801