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001 1847798
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008 951113s1996 aru s000 1 eng
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020 $a1557284342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)33819532
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm33819532
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041 1 $aeng$hara
050 00 $aPJ7842.H823$bM3513 1996
082 00 $a892/.736$220
100 1 $aKhūrī, Ilyās.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84199873
240 10 $aMamlakat al-ghurabāʼ.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95111713
245 14 $aThe kingdom of strangers /$cby Elias Khoury ; translated from Arabic by Paula Haydar.
260 $aFayetteville :$bUniversity of Arkansas Press,$c1996.
263 $a9607
300 $avii, 103 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aIn a search through the lore of war-ravaged Lebanon, Elias Khoury weaves tales within tales.
520 8 $aAmong them are the stories of a Lebanese monk murdered in Jerusalem; of Faysal, an eleven-year-old Palestinian boy who witnesses the massacre of his parents, brothers, and sisters; of a friendship between an Arab and a Jew who meet in New York City; and of Widad, "the Circassian," a girl kidnapped from her village in Azerbaijan and sold as a maid in Beirut to Iskander Naffaa, who subsequently falls in love with her and abandons everything to marry her. The novel takes place beside the Dead Sea and on the hills of Jerusalem, in the streets of Beirut, in the remote mountain villages of Lebanon, and in the alleys of Shatilla Refugee Camp. With every setting, Khoury elicits the legends and folk tales of the surroundings, tapping events from the turbulent history of the Middle East to divine the ways in which truths become myths and stories.
520 8 $aTo Khoury's narrator, these stories eventually grow to signify much more than the reality he lives day to day.
700 1 $aHaydar, Paula,$d1965-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95111872
852 00 $bglx$hPJ7842.H823$iM3513 1996