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Text in Arabic. Fatima lives with her mother and brother, Hassan.
One day, Hassan goes out to seek his fortune, but runs afoul of an
evil Lord who takes his dreams and sends him home empty-handed.
Fatima is determined to get her brothers dreams back, and to secure
her familys livelihood.
Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the
art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in
the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern
world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical
reform, never guessing what risks he is running. His beautiful
wife, Noura, is ignorant of the great plans on her husband's mind.
She knows only his cold, avaricious side and so it is no wonder she
feels flattered by the attentions of his amusing, lively young
apprentice. And so begins a passionate love story of a Muslim woman
and a Christian man.
A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul's Chapel in Damascus.
He was a Muslim officer - and he was murdered. But when Detective
Barudi sets out to interrogate the man's mysterious widow, the
Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to
investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer's motive: it
is a blood feud between the Mushtak and Shahin clans, reaching back
to the beginnings of the 20th century. And, linked to it, a love
story that can have no happy ending, for reconciliation has no
place within the old tribal structures. Rafik Schami's dazzling
novel spans a century of Syrian history in which politics and
religions continue to torment an entire people. Simultaneously, his
poetic stories from three generations tell of the courage of lovers
who risk death sooner than deny their passions. He has also written
a heartfelt tribute to his hometown Damascus and a great and moving
hymn to the power of love.
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A Hand Full Of Stars
Rafik Schami
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Damascus was Rafik Schami's home for twenty-five years before he
sought exile in Europe, and this "Pearl of the Orient" is still the
city he loves more than any other. Thirty years later, and now a
prize-winning novelist, Schami has written a culinary-cultural book
on his old home town. Two seemingly insurmountable barriers stood
in the way of the writing of it--time and geography. So Schami's
sister Marie wandered through Damascus for a year on his behalf,
relaying the curiosities, sounds, personalities, tastes, and smells
of the Old City while Schami wrote them down, relishing the
indelible and diverse mark left on Damascene cuisine by the city's
multifarious history.
Rafik Schami is the critically acclaimed author of "The Dark
Side of Love" (Interlink Books, 2009).
A murder in Damascus, a love with the power to save a young man's
life] ] In his latest novel, Rafik Schami ventures to the land of
his childhood, where he is now unable to safely return: Syria. As a
young girl, Sophia falls deeply in love with Karim, but weds a rich
goldsmith instead. A few years later, Karim is accused of an
assassination he did not commit and Sophia saves his life. He
promises that she will forever have his loyalty, no matter the risk
to himself. Long after the incident is buried in memory, Sophia's
only son, Salman, returns to Damascus after forty years of exile in
Italy; when his photo appears in the newspaper, he is forced into
hiding and fears for his life. Remembering Karim's promise, Sophia
decides to call on him for help in spite of the many years that
have passed, and the lost opportunity of their once-consuming
passion. Set during the tumultuous years leading up to the Arab
Spring, Sophia delivers the intricate plotting and lyrical prose
that Schami's reade
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