Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge

It is half an hour to midnight and Salma is about to turn twenty-one. She has missed her train to New York by waiting on the wrong platform, and knows her grandfather will be angry: for two weeks Darwish, an Egyptian professor who teaches in New York, has been preparing her birthday party and has invited nearly everyone connected with her in America. The novel has no single hero. Around Darwish, who claims the right to tell his son and daughter what is allowed and what is not, it gathers a group of characters bound to one another in different ways, each with a story of exile and an American dream that never came true, in a study of estrangement from oneself and from others.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

219 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

First published

2011 by Dar al-Ain

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9789774168192 (Hoopoe, Egypt)

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