I Can Imagine It for Us
4.3
( 3081 )
Engelsk
A young woman"™s search for connection with her estranged father, her family"™s past, and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit "Mai Serhan''s writing is unique, sincere, dark, funny, and cutti...
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A young woman"™s search for connection with her estranged father, her family"™s past, and the Palestinian homeland she can never visit "Mai Serhan''s writing is unique, sincere, dark, funny, and cuttingly tragic. ""”Selma Dabbagh Mai Serhan lives in Cairo and has never been to Palestine, the country from which her family was expelled in 1948. She is twenty-four years old when one morning she receives a phone call from her estranged father. His health is failing and he might not have long to live, so he asks her to join him in China where he runs a business empire about which Mai knows nothing. Mai agrees to go in the hopes that they will become close, but this strange new country is as unknowable to her as her father. There, the ghosts of the Nakba come to haunt them both. With this grief comes violence, and a tragic death brings a whole new meaning to the word erasure. In a narrative made rich by its layers of fragmentation, as befitting the splintered and disordered existence of exile over generations, this courageous memoir spans Egypt, Lebanon, Dubai, China and, of course, Palestine. It is filled with bitter tragedy and loss and woven through with an understated humor and much grace.
Detaljer
Forlag
American University in Cairo Press
ISBN
9781649034601
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
200
Udgivelsesdato
14-10-2025
Format
Hardback
Varenr.
3398445
EAN nr.
9781649034601
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
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