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Evil Eye
Etaf Rum
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R226
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A New York Times bestseller * A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in
March * One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books by POC for 2019 * A
Refinery 29 Best Book of the Month * A The Millions Most
Anticipated Books of 2019 'A love letter to storytelling' New York
Times 'A nuanced look at the power of shame to shatter lives and
send shards of pain hurtling down the generations . . . brilliant'
Big Issue 'Enthralling' Image magazine * * * * * Three generations
of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between
individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this
heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. Palestine,
1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining
the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a
week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and
married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to
adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda
and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she
begins to have children - four daughters instead of the sons
Fareeda tells Isra she must bear. Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old
Deya, Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at
her grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though her only desire is to
go to college. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only
way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the
right man. But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find
herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths
about her family... Set in an America at once foreign to many and
staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture
and honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an
intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world, and
a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can
destroy those we have sworn to protect.
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No
Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of
Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and
the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents. "After Yara is
placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker,
her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that’s come
after were the result of a family curse. While Yara doesn’t
believe in old superstitions, she finds herself unpacking her
strict, often volatile childhood growing up in Brooklyn, looking
for clues as to why she feels so unfulfilled in a life her mother
could only dream of. Etaf Rum’s follow-up to her 2019 debut, A
Woman Is No Man, is a complicated mother-daughter drama that looks
at the lasting effects of intergenerational trauma and what it
takes to break the cycle of abuse." —Time magazine, "The Most
Anticipated Books of the Year"
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Evil Eye
Etaf Rum
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R446
Discovery Miles 4 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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‘A complicated mother-daughter drama that looks at the lasting
effects of intergenerational trauma and what it takes to break the
cycle of abuse’ Time magazine, ‘The Most Anticipated Books of
the Year’ * * * The powerful and poignant new novel from the
author of the much-loved A Woman is No Man. Raised in a
conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would
finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur. Now,
she has a good job at the local college, and balances that with
raising her two daughters and taking care of their home. Yara knows
that her life is more rewarding than her mother’s – so why
doesn’t it feel like enough? After Yara responds to a
colleague’s racist provocation, she is put on probation at work
and must attend mandatory counselling. Her mother blames a family
curse for Yara’s troubles, and while Yara doesn’t believe in
superstitions, she still finds herself growing increasingly uneasy
about falling victim to the same mistakes as her mother. Yara’s
carefully constructed world begins to implode and suddenly she must
face up to the difficulties of her childhood, not fully realising
how that will impact not just her own future, but that of her
daughters too. * * * Praise for Etaf Rum: ‘Wise, expansive, and
deeply compassionate . . . This fierce story explores the notion of
women’s freedom and of what becomes of identity when gender
roles, family and cultural traditions are challenged and
rewritten‘ Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Birds of Paradise ‘A
moving meditation on motherhood . . . stunning’ Tara Conklin, New
York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics ‘A moving
look at the complexities of identity, marriage and redemption’
Melissa Rivero, author of The Affairs of the Falcóns ‘A love
letter to storytelling’ New York Times ‘Garnering justified
comparisons to Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns . . . a
must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their
inner voice’ Refinery 29
The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book
Club pick telling the story of three generations of
Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual
desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of
shocking intimate violence in their community. A GOODREADS CHOICE
AWARDS FINALIST FOR BEST FICTION AND BEST DEBUT - BOOKBROWE'S BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR - A MARIE CLAIRE BEST WOMEN'S FICTION OF THE YEAR
- A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE
YEAR ALL WRITTEN BY FEMALES A New York Times Book Review Editors'
Choice - A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March - A Newsweek
Best Book of the Summer - A USA Today Best Book of the Week - A
Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel - A Refinery 29
Best Books of the Month - A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put
Down Last Month - A New Arab Best Books by Arab Authors - An
Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 - A The
Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019 "Garnering justified
comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf
Rum's debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the
bravery to follow their inner voice." --Refinery 29 Where I come
from, we've learned to silence ourselves. We've been taught that
silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to
ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard
of--dangerous, the ultimate shame." Palestine, 1990.
Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the
suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week,
the naive and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and
married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to
adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda
and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she
begins to have children--four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda
tells Isra she must bear. Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya,
Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her
grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though her only desire is to go
to college. Deya can't help but wonder if her options would have
been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed
them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the
matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through
marriage to the right man. But fate has a will of its own, and soon
Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to
shocking truths about her family--knowledge that will force her to
question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the
past, and her own future.
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