Somaya Ramadan 
Leaves Of Narcissus [EPUB ebook] 
A Modern Arabic Novel

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This novel of home and homelessness, of exile both physical and psychological, centers on Kimi, a fragile heroine suffering from a rift in her persona, unable to distinguish between her own pain and the pain of others. For Kimi it is not a simple case of to be or not to be, but rather of how to be in disjointed and contrary times. Leaves of Narcissus, like earlier Arabic novels about East-West encounters by male writers such as Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Hussein, and Tayeb Salih, is about a young Arab student going west in search of education. Here, though, the protagonist is a young woman and her destination is Ireland, a part of the West and at the same time a victim of the ravages of colonialism adding ambiguity to the customary representations of the East-West dichotomy. In this captivating novel, Somaya Ramadan displays a rare virtuosity in evoking and interlacing literary motifs from the popular to the learned, from the folk to the mythic, from the Egyptian to the Irish and poses questions rather than answers, questions that hold a mirror to our selves.

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SOMAYA RAMADAN Received her Ph.D. in English from Trinity College, Dublin. She is a lecturer in English and translation at the National Academy of Arts.
Leaves of Narcissus was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2001.
MARILYN BOOTH IS associate professor of comparative and world literature and women and gender studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the translator of
Thieves in Retirement by Hamdi Abu Golayyel (AUC Press, 2007).

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 112 ● ISBN 9781617972157 ● Taille du fichier 1.9 MB ● Traducteur Marilyn Booth ● Maison d’édition The American University in Cairo Press ● Pays US ● Publié 2007 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 3220605 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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