| Conversations with My Father, Adonis Contributor(s): Esber, Ninar (Author), Scott Fox, Lorna (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1905422903 ISBN-13: 9781905422906 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2008 Annotation: Artist meets writer; young woman meets older man; daughter meets father. All these encounters are played out in the arresting conversations between the artist Ninar Esper (b. 1971) and the father she hardly knew, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (b. 1930). Esber passionately challenges Adonis on subjects ranging from fundamentalism to animal rights, from feminism to aesthetics; Adonis responds with amusement and judicious wisdom, not concealing the contradictions of a patriarchal humanist libertarian. On Esber's side, the poignancy of growing up without a father becomes a drama with Oedipal overtones. This intensely personal two-hander is at the same time representative of many contemporary displacements. Comparing their experiences of war, exile and cultural rootlessness, two individuals differently marked by Middle Eastern history seek a common ground in Paris. An intimate, uncensored, ultimately unresolved search for communication and forgiveness. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Islamic Studies - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 892 |
| LCCN: 2009290799 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 7.8" (0.90 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |