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Item Details
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LOVE IN EXILE
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| By: |
Bahaa Taher, Farouk Abdel Wahab (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£24.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9774246721 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789774246722 |
| Publisher: |
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Translated from: |
Arabic |
| Description: |
This is the story of an Egyptian journalist in self-imposed exile in Europe who suddenly finds himself faced with two issues he cannot ignore: the escalating tensions in Israeli-occupied Lebanon and, more personally, an unexpected love affair with a much younger Austrian woman, Brigitte. |
| Synopsis: |
In Love in Exile Bahaa Taher presents multilayered variations on the themes of exile, disillusionment, failed dreams, and the redemptive power of love. Unwilling to recant his Nasserist beliefs, the unnamed narrator is an Egyptian Journalist in a self-imposed exile in Europe after conflict with the management of his newspaper and a divorce from his wife. Isolating himself in self-pity over his impotent position at the paper and in ill health, he suddenly finds himself faced with two issues he cannot ignore: the escalating tensions in Israeli -occupied Lebanon and, more personally, an unexpected love affair with a much younger Austrian woman, Brigitte. Brigitte, also an exile of sorts, encourages him to turn his back on the problems and pressures of the everyday world and cocoon himself in the warmth of their love. However, the horror of events surrounding the occupation of Lebanon in 1982 soon shocks them out of their contentment and safety. The issues of love, regret, complacency, and complicity are explored in this haunting work. Bahaa Taher's highly original novel is eminently captured by Farouk Abdel Wahab's fluid translation. |
| Publication: |
Egypt |
| Imprint: |
The American University in Cairo Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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