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Author Shuqayr, Maḥmūd, author

Title Jerusalem stands alone / Mahmoud Shukair ; translated from the Arabic by Nicole Fares
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Middle East literature in translation
Middle East literature in translation.
Contents Shukair 5; Shukair Final
Summary By turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story of occupied Jerusalem-tales of the daily tribulations and personal revelations of its narrators. The stories, entwined around themes of family and identity, diverge in viewpoint and chronology but ultimately unite to reveal the tapestry of Palestinian Jerusalem. The settings evoke the past-churches, alleys, and people who are gone but whose spirits yearn to be remembered. The characters are sons and mothers, soldiers and wives, all of whom unveil themselves in sometimes poignant, sometimes bittersweet memories. As its history rises up through the present struggles and hopes of its people, the deepest, most personal layers of Jerusalem are revealed
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2018)
Subject FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Literary.
SUBJECT Jerusalem -- Fiction
Subject Middle East -- Jerusalem
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author Fares, Nicole, translator
LC no. 2018005385
ISBN 9780815654469
0815654464
Other Titles Quds waḥdahā hunāk. English