The Kingdom of Strangers
by Elias Khoury
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"This mosaic portrayal of its author's native Lebanon besieged by civil war in fact expands into a generalized examination of the chaos and despair suffered by families everywhere during wartime ... (I)n the tale of Widad the Circassian peasant girl who becomes the beloved wife of the wealthy merchant who 'buys' her, (Khoury) creates a stingingly dramatic tale". -- Kirkus ReviewsTags
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Middle East Fiction
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- Canonical title
- The Kingdom of Strangers
- Original title
- Mamlakat al-Ghuraba
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 892.736 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000
- LCC
- PJ7842 .H823 .M3513 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Arabic Arabic literature Individual authors or works
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
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- 2
