Beyond love / Hadiya Hussein ; translated from the Arabic by Ikram Masmoudi ; with a foreword by Miriam Cooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḥusayn, Hadīyah.

Contributor:

Masmoudi, Ikram.

Series:

Middle East literature in translation.

Middle East literature in translation

Standardized Title:

Ma Ba'd Al-Hub. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance fiction, Arabic.

Persian Gulf War, 1991--Fiction.

Persian Gulf War, 1991.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hussein's starkly beautiful novel Beyond Love plunges us into the 1991 Gulf War and its aftermath. Huda, the young woman at the center of the story, experiences the deprivation and humiliation of life in sanctioned Iraq, working in the satirically named al-Amal factory (factory of hope) making men's underwear. While surveillance and fear permeate daily life, Huda dares to vote "no" in the referendum for Saddam Hussein. This courageous act could have led to her death had she not fled to the closest border, Jordan, where the novel begins. Huda is not alone: Iraqi exiles are legion there, all waiting to be relocated and start new lives. Unable to go home or to feel settled in a foreign city, she struggles to overcome her grief and haunting memories of the war and the Shi'ite uprising. In letters, diaries, and oral stories, Hussein's characters viscerally portray the pain of war and the alienation of exile. Originally published in Arabic in 2003, Beyond Love introduces English-language readers to one of the leading voices in Iraqi fiction today.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Beyond Love""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815651772

0815651775

OCLC:

808345631