That's my uncle, not exactly in the center but a bit to the right, the one with the hunched shoulders and thick waist, his back to the camera: his is the most important back, the back in white, the back that speaks.
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(1998)
The One Facing Us
A Novel
1st American Ed edition
by Ronit Matalon
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In Ronit Matalon's inventive debut, Esther, seventeen years old, wild and rebellious, is sent from Israel to Cameroon to stay with her hardheaded uncle Sicourelle, who is charged with straightening her out. But Esther resists her uncle's plans for her future - which include marriage to a cousin - and in the privileged indolence of postcolonial Africa she looks to the past instead.
With sepia portraits and scraps of letters, Esther pieces together the history of her family, a once-grand Egyptian Jewish clan, and its dispersal from Cairo in the 1950s to Israel, Africa, and New York.
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Egyptian Jews, Fiction, Identity, Jewish diaspora, Jews, Jews, Egyptian, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, generalPlaces
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The One Facing Us: A Novel
June 15, 1999, Owl Books
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The one facing us: a novel
1998, Metropolitan Books
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