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Badria Al Shihhi, Marcia Lynx Qualey - Crossing Embers, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Crossing Embers

Av Badria Al Shihhi, Marcia Lynx Qualey

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Widowed at a young age, Zahra finds herself being forced into a hasty marriage to her cousin. Having been conditioned by her family and society to perennially obey the society’s diktats, taking destiny into her own hands seems nigh impossible. Her radical decision to do so takes her on the journey of discovery from an Omani village perched atop a mountain to the East African coast. But of more importance than her physical journey through space is her internal one: of how far Zahra has to go to be free from the shackles of discrimination to finally find her place in the world, and what that search for independence holds for her.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-01
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 274 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 284
  • Förlag: Dar Arab
  • ISBN: 9781788710824
  • Översättare: Sawad Hussain
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Badria Al Shihhi is a novelist, academic professor and a Deputy Chairperson of the Omani State Council, with a PhD and MSc. In Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University. She has worked in different positions and gained many experiences. Among her busy non-literary work, she has managed to fulfil her favourite hobby of writing and published three novels and many short stories at an earlier stage (started at age of 12). She is the first female novelist in Oman. Her first novel “Crossing Embers” which was first published in 1999; is considered by many critics as the birth of true Omani novel. Badria is also a mother of five children. She is a frequent traveller and plans an early retirement to spend more time on writing and exploring new places.Sawad Hussain is an Arabic translator and litterateur with a passion for bringing narratives from Africa to a wider audience. She has lectured at the IAIS at the University of Exeter, and taught Arabic (KS3 & KS4) in Johannesburg and Dubai. Her work has been recognised by English PEN, the Anglo-Omani Society and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, among others. She is a judge for the Palestine Book Awards and the 2023 National Translation Award. She has run translation workshops under the auspices of Shadow Heroes, Africa Writes, Shubbak Festival, the Yiddish Book Center, the British Library, and the National Centre for Writing. Her most recent translations include Black Foam by Haji Jaber (AmazonCrossing) and What Have You Left Behind by Bushra al-Maqtari (Fitzcarraldo Editions). She was selected to be the Princeton Translator in Residence in 2025.

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