Al-Shaykh, Hanan

The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. hardcover ISBN: 0747599882, Condition: LikeNew.

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Book number: mon0000364981

AL-SHAYKH, HANAN

The Story of Zahra

London, Readers International, 1986. First English language edition. Hardcover. First printing. Translated from the Arabic by Peter Ford. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Very Good +/very good +.

The Glass KeyProfessional seller

Book number: 93204

Catalogue: Fiction

AL-SHAYKH HANAN

Women of Sand and Myrrh

Allen & Unwin. 1994, Reprint. (ISBN: 1863736832) Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good condition. Very Good.

Little Lane BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 006941

Keywords: Fiction, Middle East, Women, Drama, Conflict, 1863736832

COBHAM, CATHERINE; AL-SHAYKH, HANAN; SHAYKH, HANAN

I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops

New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday. 1998. (ISBN: 0385491271) Paperback. 267 pag. Good.

von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & ZonenProfessional seller

Book number: 019021

Catalogue: Engelstalige Literatuur

Keywords: Fiction Short Stories Single Author 0385491271

AL-SHAYKH Hanan, FORD Peter [Translator]

The Story of Zahra

Quartet BookS, 1986. 9780704325463. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 184 (no inscriptions). .

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Book number: 185423

Catalogue: Literature

Hanan Al-Shaykh

The Locust And the Bird

Bloomsbury 2009 Paperback, 353pp. New York, 2001 As Hanan al-Shaykh travels through the streets of Manhattan to her daughter's wedding her mind is elsewhere. Remembering own secret ceremony some thirty years ago, her thoughts turn to her mother, Kamila, who was sacrificed into marriage: her absent mother who, in recent, reconciled years, has pleaded with Hanan, her daughter the writer, to tell this story. Lebanon, 1934. Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. Though she has never learned to read or write, stories, poetry and films are her passion, and she longs to go to school. Instead, she is to lead a life of domestic servitude-and worse, she has been secretly betrothed to her brother-in-law, Abu-Hussein, a man eighteen years her senior. A welcome escape from the strict household, Kamila is apprenticed to Fatme the seamstress. One day Kamila catches sight of a beautiful young man, Muhammad, sitting by a fountain. At the age of thirteen, for what will be the first and only time in her life, Kamila falls deeply in love. The following year, to her fury and anguish, Kamila is married to Abu-Hussein. That night, he forces himself upon his child-bride and a daughter is conceived: four years later, Kamila's second daughter, Hanan, is born. In secret, but risking everything, Kamila continues to see Muhammad. But in choosing to follow her heart, she must also, agonisingly, leave behind her beloved daughters. Beautifully evoking the fabric of life in Lebanon, The Locust and the Bird is a remarkable and intensely moving memoir. Told in a voice that is entirely distinctive and authentic, this unique portrait of the life of one woman gives us an astonishing insight into the lives of many others in the Arab world. (ISBN: 9781408800072). Good.

Book HavenProfessional seller

Book number: 1527626

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Biography9781408800072 9781408800072

AL-SHAYKH, HANAN

Only in London

NY: Pantheon Books, 2001. 0375421335. First American Edition. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0375421335. Publisher's quarter bound red over red boards, silver gilt lettering on spine. Hinge starting, cover has some shelf-wear, ink and pencil underlining and annotations on few pages throughout. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 276 pp. Good with no dust jacket .

Round Table Books, LLCProfessional seller

Book number: 19710

Catalogue: Literature - Fiction

Keywords: 0375421335 Fiction; London Arabs Women Novels, Poetry & Literature Women Fiction

SHAYKH, HANAN AL.

The Story of Zahra.

London. Quartet Books. 1986. Cloth. Dustwrapper. 184pp. Dustwrapper creased, Dustwrapper with sticker, else good. Translated into English by Peter Ford. ISBN 0704325462.

Worpsweder AntiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 309953

Catalogue: Literatur / Belletristik

Al-Shaykh, Hanan

The Story of Zahra

London: Reader's International, 1986. 1st printing of 1st English edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Lorrin Wong, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 561071

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 704325462

al-Shaykh, Hanan, translated by Catherine Cobham,

Women of Sand and Myrrh.

NY, Doubleday, (1988). 4th ptg. VG PB. The story of 4 Arab women living in a desert state struggling to cope in a society with every luxury but freedom & humanity.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS020022I

Catalogue: Fiction

al-Shaykh, Hanan, translated by Catherine Cobham,

Women of Sand and Myrrh.

NY, Doubleday, (1988). 4th ptg. VG PB. The story of 4 Arab women living in a desert state struggling to cope in a society with every luxury but freedom & humanity.

Crabtree's Collection Old BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS034974I

Catalogue: Fiction