Lina - Portrait of a Damascene Girl: A Novel (Three Continents Press)
by Samar Attar
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A revealing study of a girl growing to maturity in middle-class Syria and of her family's struggle to survive in the tumultuous years of 1940-1961 in Damascus. Attar's work shows a keen eye for the daily scene, a keen ear for conversation, and a tragic sense of history. Reflecting the rapid sociopolitical changes in Syria that exalted some, but crushed others, it marks anew the patterns of family life, love, and death.Tags
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Samar Attar is an invited speaker at international universities and organizations in Egypt, Syria, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates. She is the author of Debunking the Myths of Colonization: The Arabs and Europe.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 892.736 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000
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- PJ7814 .T825 .L5613 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Arabic Arabic literature Individual authors or works
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