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Ros Schwartz (trans) and
Dominique Edde
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
November 15, 2012
Pages
303
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780857420435
ISBN-10
0857420437
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.25 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$25.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Eddéâs Kite defies categorization. Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late â80s, it is at once a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately tragic, relationship between Mali and Farid and the simultaneous decline of Egyptian-Lebanese society. Densely populated with myriad characters, Kite chronicles the casualties of social conventions, religious divisions and cultural clichés. The differences between East and West are central to the tension of Eddéâs book and share the responsibility for an unavoidable impasse between the lovers. This fragmented narrativeâwritten in several voices that reflect the fragmented lives of those caught up in the madness of warâcalls into question an entire way of living and thinking.
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In lyrical, elegant, original and often startling prose, Eddé weaves together multiple strandsâmeditating on the nature of language, investigating the concept of the novel, and powerfully depicting the experience of being blind. Deftly evoking the intellectual scene of Beirut in the â60s, Lebanonâs mountainscapes and the urban settings of Cairo, Paris and London, Kite probes memory with a curious mix of irony and melancholy, ending up in a place beyond hope and despair.
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (November 15, 2012)
9780857420435 | details & prices | 303 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Eddéâs Kite defies categorization.
About: Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Eddéâs Kite defies categorization.
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