Mahjar
a novel
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Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3768451M
- ISBN-101741140714
- OCLC Control Number52504653
- OCLC Control Number58055517
- OCLC Control Numbermahjarnovel00sall
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003495966
- LibraryThing5896883
- Goodreads47635
Classifications
- DDC823/.92
- LCCPR9619.3.S244 M34 2003
Description
Vibrating with life and woven with evocative Arabic fables, these stories are about the differences between Lebanese and Australian culture: between parents and children, new lives and old. With warmth, humour and insight, Sallis s eloquent prose captures the pain as well as the joys of living in a new land.Zein, Farhan, Rayya and their circle are migrants of the fifties, yearning for both their future and their past. Their children, Salah, Rima, Hussein and their friends are young Australians with a distinctive voice and place, succeeding or failing in the clash between generations, struggling for independence in the face of their parents hopes and dreams. Abdal-Rahman is an Iraqi refugee who has lost everything. And Ali, Ahmad, Akram and Yusuf are children in Palestine and Baghdad who have no future but whose stories soar.Mahjar is about lives, journeys and stories, about exile and theexperiences that push people to new homelands. Through interwovenstories and fables, it evokes Australia s intimate connection with theMiddle East. as well as the joys of living in a new land.
Description
Vibrating with life and woven with evocative Arabic fables, these stories are about the differences between Lebanese and Australian culture: between parents and children, new lives and old. With warmth, humour and insight, Sallis' prose captures the pain as well as the joys of living in a new land.
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Genres
- Australia
- Fiction.
Other Editions
- Mahjar: a novel
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