Crescent (Paperback: Reprint: 368 pages)
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Product Details: Crescent
| Author: | Diana Abu-Jaber |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 368 pages. |
| Publisher: | W W Norton & Co Inc (05/01/2004) |
| ISBN: | 0393325547 |
| ISBN13: | 9780393325546 |
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What might have been the stuff of any romance is forced into a powerful story about the loneliness of exile and the limits of love. Am impressive second outing by Abu-Jaber.
Just as Virginia Woolf's classic work MRS. DALLOWAY...is more than a story about an upper-class woman preparing for a party, CRESCENT goes far beyond menu-planning. The big issues here are exile, identity and the transformative power of true love, with Saddam Hussein a sinister, looming presence throughout the book....[T]his is a story that unfolds beautifully, as lightly and naturally as a roll of silk.
Publisher Notes: Crescent
- SIRINE IS THIRTY-NINE, never married, and lives in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, believe she should be trying harder to find a husband. One day a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant, and Sirine finds herself falling in love and, in the process, starts questioning her identity as an Arab-American.
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