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12 produkter
Language of Baklava
E-bok, 2007
176 kr
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Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked repasts, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate …
Arabian Jazz
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
346 kr
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In Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower …
Crescent
A Novel
Häftad, 2004
453 kr
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Sirine, the heroine of this "deliciously romantic romp" (Vanity Fair) is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, …
Origin
A Novel
Häftad, 2008
386 kr
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Secretly, in her heart of hearts, Lena Dawson hides the strangest of beliefs about her childhood. Hiding behind a cool competence as a superb fingerprint analyst in a crime lab in snowy Syracuse, New York, she feels totally out of place in the ordinary world of human interaction. Especially since …
Birds of Paradise
A Novel
Häftad, 2012
181 kr
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At thirteen, Felice Muir ranaway from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done—leaving ahole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father,and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging forfood, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, …
Life Without a Recipe
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
236 kr
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On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber’s tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate argument. The two could not agree on anything: not …
Fencing with the King
A Novel
Inbunden, 2022
309 kr
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Amani is hooked on a mystery—a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War.Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of …
Silverworld
E-bok, 2020
84 kr
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Fall under the spell of this fantasy-adventure story about a Lebanese-American girl who finds the courage to save her grandmother. Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon . Sitti, Sami''s Lebanese grandmother, has been ill for a while, slipping from reality and speaking in a language only …
Fencing with the King
A Novel
Häftad, 2023
209 kr
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The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his favourite pastime—fencing—and with his favourite sparring partner, Gabriel Hamdan, who must be enticed back from America, where he lives with his wife and his daughter, Amani.Amani, a divorced poet, jumps at the …
Origin
A Novel
Ljudbok, 2007
481 kr
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Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths—indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with connections in high places—draws the attention of the …
