Lit in Translation

Praise for the Women of the Family

مديح لنساء العائلة · Madih li-nisa' al-'a'ila

Mahmoud Shukair (محمود شقير, born 1941)

Translated by Paul Starkey

English editions

In English

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Muhammad, son of the patriarch Mannan, writes the history of the Abd al-Lat clan through its women: a wife gossiped about for going to a party with her husband, another who trades her long gown for a dress in the city, a bank clerk who swims in the sea, and Mannan's sixth wife, who fears the television is haunted. Around them, the Bedouin clan faces the upheavals of 1950s Palestine.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
201 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Palestinian Territories, 1950s
First published
2015 by Hachette Antoine
Author's age
74 when first published
ISBN

9786144382769 (original)

9781623719845 (Interlink Books, United States)

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