MARC Record from Western Washington University

LEADER: 01840cam 2200325 a 45 0
001 ocm49402962
003 OCoLC
005 20050526065137.0
008 020322s2002 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a2002004525
020 $a0815607385 (alk. paper)
020 $a0815608128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dXFF
041 1 $aeng$hara
042 $apcc
049 $aXFFA
050 00 $aPJ7814.L53$bF3813 2002
100 1 $a{mllhring}{macr}Alim, Raj{macr}a{mlrhring}.
240 10 $aF{macr}a{dotb}timah.$lEnglish
245 10 $aFatma :$ba novel of Arabia /$cRaja Alem with Tom McDonough.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSyracuse :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2002.
300 $a164 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aMiddle East literature in translation
520 1 $a"Fatma, an Arabian peasant girl, unwittingly embarks upon a strange journey of transformation the day her father marries her off to a snake handler with a sideline in potions brewed from venom. When Fatma is bitten by one of the snakes, she is changed from an innocent girl into an overpoweringly sensuous woman with a mysterious talent for controlling her husband's snakes and an ability to travel with them into realms beyond ordinary human experience." "Journeying into the Netherworld with her snakes, Fatma meets Prince Taray, a melancholoy warrior-hero. She and Taray bewitch each other and struggle toward union in rapturous rituals during which, among other things, Fatma alternately bursts into flames and melts into golden liquid." "Resonating with ritual and mystery, Fatma is a tale of one woman's path to ecstasy - an enraptured vision of enchantment in this world and fulfillment in another."--BOOK JACKET
700 1 $aMcDonough, Tom.
907 $a.b20613878$bmulti$c-
902 $a070717
998 $b1$c050526$dm$ea$f-$g0
902 $adgm