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Only In London - Hanan Al-Shaykh

Description: ISBN 0747557926 / Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... lives of men and women, particularly the latter, in Arab countries as they struggle for survival and freedom in closed ... more

... societies often caught in the upheavals of internecine hostility and development. In her new book we’re still in the Arab world, but the location has shifted to London, that small area that stretches along Edgware Road to Marble Arch, down Park Lane and its luxury hotels.” A turbulence in a plane on its way from Dubai to London during which they console each other brings the four main characters from three different Arabic countries and a ...more

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Only In London - Hanan Al-Shaykh: Liberating London (955 words)
by MALU - written on 04/12/02 (Very useful, 189 readings)
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I don’t get to London as often as I’d like to, so when I find a book dealing with this city, I buy it as a (weak) substitute. When I saw ‘Only In London’ by Hanan Al-Shaykh in the English corner of a German bookshop I thought I’d found a twin of the Buddha in Suburbia. How off the point I was I found out at home when I read the Note on the Author. I learnt not only that Hanan is an Arabic woman’s name, but also that Hanan Al-Shaykh is one of the leading contemporary Women Writers in the Arab world. She writes in Arabic, her novels have been translated into nine foreign languages. ‘Only In London’ ...

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