| Chaos of the Senses Contributor(s): Mosteghanemi, Ahlem (Author), Roberts, Nancy (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1408857286 ISBN-13: 9781408857281 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 892.73 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.35 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Love always sits in a seat other than the one we were expecting it to, right alongside the place where we expected love to be. In the midst of the Algerian civil war, Hayat is a young novelist trapped in a loveless marriage. While her husband, a high-ranking officer, preoccupies himself with politics, Hayat finds freedom from her highly regimented life in the world of her writing, where she weaves a passionate story for her characters. But the line between fiction and reality blurs when she falls for a man who seems to have walked straight out of the pages of her notebook, a man who seduces her, rather than her heroine, with his silence. As love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out in the dark corners of a broken city, Hayat's country convulses with political upheaval. In a place where those who dare to write the truth are made to pay a heavy price, she and her characters will discover that no one can truly be the author of her own destiny. A powerful story of love, identity, and liberation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roberts, Nancy: - Nancy Roberts is a prize-winning translator with experience in the areas of modern Arabic literature, current events, Christian-Muslim relations and Islamic thought, history and law. She lives in Amman, Jordan with her husband and two daughters. |