Anton Shammas

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ArabesquesPaperback, 17 January 2023

Arabesques
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Print Length
280 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
17 Jan 2023
ISBN-10
168137692X
ISBN-13
9781681376929

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A luminous, inventive, and deeply personal exploration of living in the liminal space between Jewish and Arab, ancient and modern, by a gifted Palestinian writer.

Chosen by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1988, Arabesques is a luminous novel that engages with history and politics not as propaganda but as literature. That engagement begins with the language in which the book is written: Anton Shammas, from a Palestinian Christian family and raised in Israel, wrote in Hebrew, as no Arab novelist had before. The choice was provocative to both Arab and Jewish readers.

Arabesques is divided into two sections: "The Tale" and "The Teller." "The Tale" tells of several generations of family life in a rural village, of the interplay of past and present, of how memory intersects with history in a part of the world where different people have both lived together and struggled against each other for centuries. "The Teller" is about the writer's voyage out of that world to Paris and the United States, as he comes into his vocation as a writer, and raises questions about the authority of the storyteller and the nature of the self. Shammas's tour de force is both a personal and a political narrative--a reinvention of the novel as a way of envisioning and responding to historical and cultural legacies and conflicts.

Product Details

Author:
Anton Shammas
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 January 2023
Dimensions:
20.07 x 12.7 x 1.27 cm
ISBN-10:
168137692X
ISBN-13:
9781681376929
Language:
English
Pages:
280
Weight:
249.48 gm

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