HANAN AL SHAYKH

A story from Hanan al-Shaykh to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. A young flies from London to Cairo when she hears her love call for her. But she does not know what

Witty, poetic, erotic and brutal, One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar believes all women are unfaithful and vows to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. To survive, his newest wife Shahrazad spins a web of tales night after night, leaving the King in suspense when morning comes, thus prolonging her life for another day. Written in Arabic from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab empire, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. Now adapted by Hanan al-Shaykh the One Thousand and One Nights are revealed in an intoxicating new voice.

En un turbulento viaje en avión de Dubai a Londres,una prostituta de lujo marroquí establece un vínculo con otros viajeros: una iraquí divorciada que va a reunirse con su hijo; Nicholas, inglés exper

Incluso antes de que la guerra se convierta en parte de la historia de su propio país, la libanesa Zahra vive inmersa en un mar de dudas y preguntas y magia. Se ve sometida a una desgraciada seducción que la lleva al aborto y a tener que soportar una dura electroterapia, para terminar contrayendo un infeliz matrimonio en Africa durante la visita a un tio suyo. Muslim, su marido le exige una virginidad que evidentemente no puede ofrecerele. De vuelta a su pais despues de esta relacion fracasada, es extrañamente en un Beirut en guerra donde encuentra algo parecido a la paz. Una novela conmovedora, impresionante y elocuente que nos desvela un rincon oscuro de la vida de la mujer y su papel en la familia moderna arabe, por lo que no es sorprendente que haya sido prohibida en varios de estos paises.

Una inquietante novela que retrata el encuentro de cuatro mujeres de culturas y sentimientos distintos, cuyas circunstancias las hacen coincidir en un país árabe.

En un turbulento viaje en avión de Dubai a Londres, una prostituta de lujo marroquí, Amira, establece un vínculo con otros viajeros: Lamis, una iraquí divorciada que va a reunirse con su hijo; Nicholas, inglés experto en arte islámico, y Samir, el único no occidentalizado. Este grupo heterogéneo va a encontrarse y desencontrarse en Londres, viviendo sus vidas con las vidas de los demás de fondo.

As a flight from Dubai comes into London''s Heathrow and hits turbulence, four people from different corners of the Arab world are thrown together: beautiful, lost Lamis, recently divorced from her wealthy Iraqi husband; Nicholas, an expert at Southeby''s on Islamic daggers; louche and noisy Amira, a Moroccan who lives off immoral earnings and the transvestite Samir, with a monkey hidden in a basket. Landing safely they go their separate ways, but from then on they find their lives are intimately entwined. "Only In London" is a funny, tender and sexy novel that uncovers a unique world in the heart of a big city.

Quatro estranhos se encontram em um voo turbulento de Dubai para Londres: Amira, uma prostituta marroquina; Lamís, uma iraquiana divorciada de 30 anos; Nicholas, especialista inglês em arte islâmica;

Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesnt fully understand. Once safely on British soil, Lamis and Nicholas fall in love, Samir chases after blond British youths, and Amira reinvents herself as a princess, the better to lure clients at the best London hotels. Through the city and across cultural borders, Only in London wittily portrays the smells, sounds, and sights of Londons lively Arab neighorhoods, as well as the freedoms the city both offers and withholds from its immigrants.

A modern classic of Arab womens literatureand a poignant reminder of the enduring plight of oppressed women around the globeBrilliantly drawn . . . Al-Shaykh is one of the Arab worlds most distinguished writers.The Guardian In an unnamed desert state, four very different womenSuha, Tamr, Suzanne, and Nurstruggle to cope in a society where they are treated to every luxury but freedom. Through their experiences, acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh lays bare the unusual and highly charged relations that exist in a state that denies women their humanity. First published in 1988, Women of Sand and Myrrh is not only an elegant, moving novel of lasting impact, but also a powerfully revealing insight into a long-cloistered world.

With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab worlds foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new, groundbreaking level.The daring fragmented structure of this epistolary novel mirrors the chaos surrounding the heroine, Asmahan, as she futilely writes letters to her loved ones, to her friends, to Beirut, and to the war itself--letters of lament that are never to be answered except with their own resounding echoes. In Beirut Blues, Hanan al-Shaykh evokes a Beirut that has been seen by few, and that will never be seen again.

Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short stories--eleven of which are appearing in English for the first time--al-Shaykh expands her horizons beyond the boundaries of Lebanon, taking us throughout the Middle East, to Africa, and finally to London. Stylistically diverse, her stories are often about the shifting and ambiguous power relationships between different cultures--as well as between men and women. Often compared to both Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble, Hanan al-Shaykh is "a gifted and courageous writer" (Middle Eastern International).