The tent: a novel
The Tent is a beautifully written, powerful, and disturbing novel, featuring a host of women characters whose lives are subject to the will of a single, often absent, patriarch and his brutal, foul-mouthed mother. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the lives of the Bedouin and peasant women unfold, revealing the tragedy of the sonless mother and the intolerable heaviness of existence. Set against trackless deserts and star-filled night skies, the story tells of the young girl's relationship…
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- Full title :The tent : a novel / Miral al-Tahawy ; translated by Anthony Calderbank.
Summary
The Tent is a beautifully written, powerful, and disturbing novel, featuring a host of women characters whose lives are subject to the will of a single, often absent, patriarch and his brutal, foul-mouthed mother. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the lives of the Bedouin and peasant women unfold, revealing the tragedy of the sonless mother and the intolerable heaviness of existence. Set against trackless deserts and star-filled night skies, the story tells of the young girl's relationship with her distant father and a foreign woman who is well-meaning but ultimately motivated by self-inte.
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- Publication Date:2000.
- Edition:First paperback edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):American University in Cairo Press
- Place of Publication:Cairo
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 130 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781617973949, 1617973947, 9781617971891, 1617971898
- oclc:ocn895002506
- LC Classification:PJ7864.A3568
- Dewey Decimal:892.7/36
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