Benefit Street : A Novel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernardi, Adria.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Fiction Collective Two, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

"Set in an unnamed provincial capital of an unnamed country, Benefit Street by Adria Bernardi is a novel that tells of a wide circle of friends-teachers, lawyers, missionaries, doctors, artisans-in a time of gathering and dispersal. It tells the story of mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, colleagues, and neighbors, as war to the East threatens and constitutional rights are daily eroded by an increasingly authoritarian regime"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

First Lines

-There was not a straight street in my city

-We came in shaking the fronts of our coats

-Kader forked off into two major streets

-When I stepped up onto the high stone step

-Did you go visit?

-After dinner, Gabriel sat on the largest square cushion

-In the first days, how awkward

-Out through the front glass door

-The lesson from yesterday was still up on the board

-This time I was the one who was late

-Now where were we?

-Come, she called to Emiz

-Emiz had seen the original

-My brothers knew how to tell a good story

-There was once a man who travelled from village to village

-The wall to the left is higher

-Emiz crowds her when she walks

-No one comes to the door

-They kept writing her letters

-On Serafettin street

-The number is 20022202

-The conversations were never completed

-Once a group of friends

-You yourself have been lost

-She was born in a city

-There was a war to the east

-All these things around me

-She took off her shoes to assemble the loom

-Would you take me to meet your mother?

-She kept finding coins in her pocket

-Our kilims hung on the walls

-Aminah came in with packages

-In my country, everyone is a poet

-I miss the sh sounds

-Look at a map of my country

-Gabriel, we're going to anchor this metal cable

-She wrapped flatbread in a cloth napkin

-What kills? a man shouted hoarsely

-By the time I was born

-Lazarus set out in a caravan

-We were dropped off in the wrong part of the city

-Once the pattern is begun, the loom cannot be moved

-Gabriel, my love, I said to him, come with me to the park

-The canal runs underneath the city

-None of us knows where Nazim went.

-The missionary's wife lived on a curved side street

-At the center of the city was a hill

-Stop me if I told you already

-At the center of the city

-I gathered and gathered

-Didymus stood by the window

-Even then, I would panic that I would not return home

-She is dead as a consequence

-She dreamed the shape before she began it

-And I put everything, but everything

-Didymus and I sat one afternoon in the middle of one of three park benches

-The houses there were closer to the street

-In my city, even the mechanics work on mosaics inside their workshops

-That evening, I pushed open the door.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Bernardi, Adria Benefit Street

ISBN:

9781573668996

1573668990

OCLC:

1303569252