Ughniyat li-l-atma

Iman Humaidan

Saqi
Langue: arabe
1. Édition (2023)
paperback, pages
ISBN 9786140322912
Disponibilité: livraison prend 3-5 semaines
24.00 € 

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Songs for the Darkness is the story of four generations of women from the Lebanese Dali family, residing in the village of Kasura in Mount Lebanon: Shahira, the great-grandmother, “Mother of All,” who marries at the beginning of the twentieth century and fights for the education of her children; her daughter Yasmin, who dies after giving birth to Leila; Leila, who lives in the imaginary world of novels, an escape from her marriage to a violent man; and Asmahan, the narrator of the story, who emigrates after her husband takes their son away from her on his seventh birthday