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Specters
| Author: | Radwa Ashour |
| Category: | Unspecified Category [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Interlink Pub Group |
| ISBN: | 1566568323 |
| Release Date: | 01 Jan 2010 |
| Rank: | 362,194 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Book Description
Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize Specters tells the story of Radwa and Shagar, two women born the same day. The narrative alternates between their childhoods, their work lives (one a professor of literature and the other of history), their personal relationships, and their respective books. With her novel's structure, Ashour pays tribute to the Arab qareen (double or companion, and sometimes demon) and the ancient Egyptian ka , the spirit that is born with and accompanies an individual through life, and beyond. This lively metafictional novel is a mix of genres: part autobiography, part oral history, part documentary, part fiction. As the narrative moves back and forth between Radwa's novel Specters and Shagar's history Specters (about the massacre at Deir Yassin in April 1948), Ashour unites the projects of history and literature and blurs the boundaries between the personal and the political in one compellingly readable meditation on contemporary life in a fractured world.
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