Salt Houses (e-bog) af Alyan, Hala
Alyan, Hala (forfatter)

Salt Houses e-bog

90,41 DKK (inkl. moms 113,01 DKK)
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage ';Moving and beautifully written.' Entertainment Weekly On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl'sfuture in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. ...
E-bog 90,41 DKK
Forfattere Alyan, Hala (forfatter)
Forlag Harper
Udgivet 2 maj 2017
Længde 336 sider
Genrer Fiction: general and literary
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780544912380
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage ';Moving and beautifully written.' Entertainment Weekly On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl'sfuture in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keepher predictions to herself that day, they will all sooncome to passwhen the family is uprooted inthe wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Lyrical and heartbreaking,Salt Housesfollows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confrontthat most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.';[Alyan is] a master.' Los Angeles Review of Books ';Beautiful . . . An example of how fiction is often the best filter for the real world around us.' NPR ';Gorgeous and sprawling . . . Heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely.' Dallas Morning News ';[Salt Houses] illustrate[s] the inherited longing and sense of dislocation passed like a baton from mother to daughter.' New York Times Book Review