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by Betool Khedairi; Muhayman Jamil (Translator)
Dalal, a young Iraqi woman living with her aunt and uncle, tries to maintain a normal life, despite the crippling effect of bombings and international sanctions. By turns affectionate, wry, and darkly comic, this moving portrait depicts people struggling to get by in impossible circumstances.
Summary
Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments, Saad the hairdresser attends to a dwindling number of female customers, and Ilham, a nurse, escapes the stark realities of her hospital job in dreams of her long-lost French mother. Despite the damaging effects of bombings and international sanctions on their world, all the residents try to maintain normal lives.Hoping to bring in much-needed cash by selling honey, Dalal's uncle becomes a beekeeper, enlisting Dalal's help in the care of these temperamental creatures. Meanwhile, Dalal falls in love for the first time--against a background of surprise arrests, personal betrayals, and a crumbling social fabric that turns neighbors into informants.Tightly crafted and full of vivid, unforgettable characters, Absent is a haunting portrait of life under restrictions, the fragile emotional ties among family and friends, and the resilience of the human spirit.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Title Absent
- Author Betool Khedairi; Muhayman Jamil (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Trade, New York, NY
- Date July 10, 2007
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780812977424 / 0812977424
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.71 x 0.56 in (20.32 x 14.50 x 1.42 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Baghdad (Iraq), Apartment dwellers - Iraq - Baghdad
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/2007, Page 522
- Publishers Weekly, 05/28/2007, Page 36
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