The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh, حنان الشيخ, Roger Allen

The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story

Hanan Al-Shaykh, حنان الشيخ, Roger Allen

302 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man—and ...

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