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| Author: | Betool Khedairi |
| Category: | Unspecified Category [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | الجامعة الأمريكية قسم النشر |
| Rank: | 573,411 No 1 most popular |
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Betool Khedairi
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Betool Khedairi (Arabic: بتول الخضيري) was born in Baghdad in 1965 to an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother. After receiving her B.A. in French literature from the University of Mustansirya, she divided her time between Iraq, Jordan and the United Kingdom while working in her family’s business. She currently lives in Amman.
Her first novel, A Sky So Close, is translated from Arabic into English, It Betool Khedairi (Arabic: بتول الخضيري) was born in Baghdad in 1965 to an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother. After receiving her B.A. in French literature from the University of Mustansirya, she divided her time between Iraq, Jordan and the United Kingdom while working in her family’s business. She currently lives in Amman.
Her first novel, A Sky So Close, is translated from Arabic into English, Italian, French and Dutch and is the subject of literary critique studies in various international universities.
Ghayeb (Absent) is her second novel. The Arabic edition was published in Amman in July 2004.
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set in a crowded apartment building in Baghdad in the 1990s, Absent tells the story of Dalal, a young women living with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. Dalal and her neighbors try to maintain normal lives , despite the crippling effect of bombings and international sanctions in their world. Affectionate, wry , and darkly comical, Absent paints a moving portrait of resourceful individuals struggling to get by in impossible circumstances. Upstairs, the fortuneteller Umm Mazin offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments; below, Saad the hairdresser attends to a dwindling number of female customers; and in the second floor, the nurse Ilham dreams of her long- lost French mother to escape the grim realities she sees in the children's ward at the hospital. Hoping to bring in much needed cash by selling honey, Dalal's uncle turns to beekeeping, and instructs his niece in the care and feeding of these temperamental creatures. With memories of happier times during the "Days of plenty " of her childhood, Dalal falls in live for the first time against a background of surprise arrests, personal betrayals, and a crumbling social fabric that turns neighbors into informants. Tightly crafted and skillfully told, Absent is a haunting portrait of life under sanctions, the fragile emotional ties between individuals, and, ultimately, the resilience of the human spirit.
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