Suad Amiry

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My DamascusPaperback, 26 October 2021

My Damascus
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Print Length
234 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Olive Branch Press
Date Published
26 Oct 2021
ISBN-10
162371883X
ISBN-13
9781623718831

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A nostalgic voyage that reveals the Syrian capital's majestic past

Writer and architect, Suad Amiry, was born in an old neighborhood of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. In My Damascus she takes her reader by the hand through not only the narrow alleys and lively souqs adjacent to the grand Umayyad Mosque, but also into the intimate spaces of her rich merchant grandfather's Baroudi Mansion.

Through a web of interwoven personal stories and an intricate mix of simple, complicated or sometimes devious characters, Amiry travels across space and time, spanning three generations of family history. The Baroudi women animate the story and sparkle like no others: Teta, Amiry's grandmother, rendered mute after her husband's great betrayal; her cousin, Norma, torn between love for her adoptive mother and longing for a real mother she will never know; Fatima and Ghalia, Karimeh and Laila, maids and aunts, in a kaleidoscope of vignettes.

Through them Amiry traces the social and political history of Greater Syria from the Ottoman Empire era until its present-day devastation, juxtaposing them with the most intimate, loving, often contentious, family relations and secrets. In the end, her Damascus becomes a metaphor for a dispersed family and a lost past, as well as an elegy for a city she can no longer claim as her own.

Product Details

Author:
Suad Amiry
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
26 October 2021
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
162371883X
ISBN-13:
9781623718831
Language:
English
Location:
Northampton, MA
Pages:
234
Weight:
340.19 gm

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