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All that I want to forget /

"Fatima loves poetry and wants to study French literature--both of which are anathema to her strict and conservative much older brother, Saqr. While living under his roof, Fatima's hopes and dreams are scrutinized, mocked, and slowly crushed as she is forced into his narrow vision of the r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: ʻĪsá, Buthaynah (Autor)
Otros Autores: Henjum, Michele (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Cairo, Egypt : Hoopoe, an imprint of American University in Cairo Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I grew up
  • Eating the apple
  • Prayer
  • A withered old woman
  • The tomb. I didn't cry at my first funeral ; The pit ; Wedding-night pajamas ; Evening of the third day ; The picture ; The republic of big brother ; My wedding dress ; Starving at the dinner table ; Tom and Jerry ; A ripe banana ; A lone sheep ; The black screen on the white horse ; Eclipse ; The fog ; My birthday present ; The amusement park ; The rule and the proof ; Traveling without a Mahram ; a poet in secret ; I'll repent when the time is right ; The gentleman ; The prophet said ; You talk funny ; My adoptive mother ; The sea is not for me ; Night vigil ; Wine ; Titanic ; A bad apple ; Your poet ; The slap of dreams
  • Inbox. A clarification ; A loaf of bread and a wooden table ; Adam and Eve ; "Gladly I race to my death" ; In the beginning was the word ; "If the boy falls in love?" ; Real conversation, virtual world ; A small mistake ; Things shall remain between us ; The poem still in my mouth
  • Shoes
  • Street cat
  • This must be what happened
  • Yellow Post-It
  • First phone call
  • Because my graves are many
  • Second phone call
  • Hayat
  • Third phone call
  • Partner in crime
  • Fourth phone call
  • Knives flying
  • Carefully folded socks
  • Andalusian verse
  • Hayat's life
  • Fifth phone call
  • Life 101
  • "I saw nothing but beauty"
  • This poet of yours
  • Failure to comply
  • That memory.