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The story of one woman's passionate odyssey and sophisticated
fantasy of Arabia, ancient and modern.
The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca
at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of transformation from
medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life
again in ""My Thousand and One Nights"", women hold center stage -
especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of the Water
Carriers' Sheik. This faraway time and setting become compellingly
real through the intimate drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of
her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for
the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the
Netherworld. Jummo's world, veiled and invisible to outsiders until
this telling of her story, has the feel of the true center of an
Arabia that has come to us in many exotic and threatening guises.
""Jummo's Mecca"" is a different world, with different narrative
strategies, but her dramatic problems are universal: how lethal is
love, how dangerous is woman? And how sensual is the yearning for
immortality?
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Sarab (Paperback)
Raja Alem; Translated by Leri Price
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R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
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November 1979. Violence has broken out in the holiest site of Islam
after a charismatic rebel and his devoted followers have announced
the coming of the Mahdi and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Among
the insurgents is a young woman, Sarab, disguised as a man. As the
horror and chaos of the siege reach their peak, she escapes and
encounters a French officer from the opposing side. They form an
unexpected bond, as hostility turns to attraction, but the violence
of both of their pasts will return to haunt them. Award-winning
writer Raja Alem's extraordinary narrative stretches from Saudi
Arabia's Najd desert to the heart of Paris. In her typical bold and
captivating style, this most unusual of love stories unpicks faith
and fanaticism, alienation and redemption, and ultimately what it
means to be human.
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