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The Story of Zahra ( Arabic: حِكَاية زَهْرَة, romanized : ḥikāyat zahra) is a novel by Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh. It was first published in Arabic in 1980, and in English in 1986 by Anchor Books. [1] The novel is set in Beirut before and during the Lebanese Civil War, and tells the story of a woman named Zahra, whose ...
There is no doubt that with the retrieval of memory comes the resituating of the body from its condition as an object of male desire, and "its transformation into a desiring force that rejects its subjugation to a narrative of erasure" (Fayad 148). Hanan Al Shaykh’s "The Story of Zahra" is divided into two books.
5 lug 2018 · The novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, author most recently of “The Occasional Virgin,” avoids reading books longer than 800 pages “unless they are written by my friends.”
1 gen 2001 · Hanan Al-Shaykh, حنان الشيخ, Catherine Cobham (Translator) A powerful and moving novel, by the Arab world's leading woman novelist, about four women coping with the insular, oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. 280 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1982.
Hanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese author of contemporary Arab women’s literature. A novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, she is one of the leading women writers in the Arab world. Her stories deal with women’s role in society, the relationship between the sexes, and the institution of marriage. Her novels have been translated into ...
Hanan al-Shaykh. Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the most acclaimed award-winning writers in the contemporary Arab world whose work has been translated into 21 languages and is now published around the world. She is the author of eight novels, notably, The Story of Zahra; Women of Sand and Myrrh; Beirut Blues, described by Salman Rushdie as a ...
Hanan Al-Shaykh. Hanan Al-Shaykh nasceu em 1945 em Beirute, Líbano.Iniciou sua carreira como escritora aos 17 anos, no jornal Annahar.Em 1975, com o início da guerra civil libanesa, Al-Shaykh mudou-se para a Arábia Saudita e, em 1982, para Londres, onde vive até hoje. É considerada uma das maiores escritoras árabes contemporâneas.
