Dates on my fingers : an Iraqi novel / Muhsin al-Ramli ; translated by Luke Leafgren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramlī, Muḥsin, author.

Contributor:

Leafgren, Luke, translator.

Series:

Modern Arabic literature.

Modern Arabic Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Iraq--Fiction.

Iraq.

Spain--Fiction.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade. Noah looks and acts like a new man, and Saleem sets out to discover the mystery of his father's presence in Spain and his altered life. In doing so, he recalls formative moments in Iraq of familial love, war, and the haunting accidental death of his cousin Aliya, Saleem's partner in the hesitant, t

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Novel; Translator''s Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61797-553-2

1-61797-552-4

OCLC:

1163531645