Naphtalene
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- Synopsis
- "This first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in English in the United States is a hallucinatory incantation...an ode to a city...(with) its private courtyards and public baths where the women in Huda's life rage and pray and love and scream."--Ms. MagazineNow in paperback, Naphtalene captures a fierce and defiant young girl as she struggles to form her identity in 1950s Baghdad amid a world of unfulfilled women and family tragedies.Iraqi exile Alia Mamdouh is a journalist, essayist, and novelist living in Paris who received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature in 2004.
- Copyright:
- 1986
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781558617124
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781558614932
- Publisher:
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Date of Addition:
- 09/22/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Hélène Cixous, F. A. Haidar, Peter Theroux, Alia Mamdouh
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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- by Peter Theroux
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