Flight against Time (Middle East Literature in Translation Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292755643 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Emily Nasrallah's narrative follows an elderly Lebanese couple who leave their village during the war to visit children and grandchildren in the New World. The war escalates dangerously during their visit, and the couple's children are reluctant to let their parents return home. This novel of the emigrant experience is a moving witness to the Lebanese people and to a time, the civil war. Although much of the story takes place on Prince Edward Island and in New York, the behavior and rituals of the family are those of the village in southern Lebanon. Such traditions may not be necessary to life in the New World, but are nonetheless terribly painful for emigrants to discard.
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: Arabic
Samar Barakat said The Part or the Whole?. Perhaps because I am a Lebanese woman who lived for a few years in North America as a college student and then decided to return to Lebanon, I found this book a bit disappointing. I was expecting to find some unusual insights into the causes and consequences of migration, the difficulty of assimilation, the function of memory, and so forth. Instead what we get is a generically written novel representing some name-brand charact. A Customer said Excellent picture of Lebanese in the "new world". Emily Nasrallah paints a wonderful picture that I'm sure any Lebanese immigrant can relate to -- what it is like to come from Lebanon and see family and cope with the changes -- grandparents unable to communicate with grandchildren due to language and culture barriers, parents and children, brothers and sisters. I recommend this not just to people of Lebanese background, but to anybody wanting to know what it is like to leave