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Brooklyn Heights

بروكلين هايتس · Brooklyn Heights

Miral al-Tahawy (ميرال الطحاوي, born 1968)

Translated by Samah Selim

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In English

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Hind, a poet carrying her own collection of verse, leaves Egypt with her seven-year-old son and arrives in New York as a refugee. In Brooklyn she lives among refugees, the unemployed and the first generation of Arab immigrants, looking for work and for herself. Everyone she meets seems to mirror someone from her childhood, so that she recovers her memories through a substitute geography. Moving between her chosen country and her homeland, her story looks at the tangled ties between East and West, at fundamentalism and tolerance, at loss and the hope of love, in the America of the past decade.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
234 pages in the original
Genres
Migration (assigned by AI)
Set in
United States, Egypt, 2000s
First published
2010 by Dar Merit
Author's age
42 when first published
ISBN

9789774164880 (American University in Cairo Press, Egypt)

9780571280025 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

9780571280056 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

9789774166594 (American University in Cairo Press, Egypt)

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