Lit in Translation

أمريكا

Amrika

Rabee Jaber (ربيع جابر, born 1972)

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In the first years of the twentieth century, poverty and a taste for adventure push many people from Greater Syria to try their luck in the young United States, where they cross plains and mountains as pedlars, settle in and even fight in its wars. Marta is one of them: she travels alone to New York to find her husband after news of him stops.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
431 pages in the original
Genres
Migration, Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
United States, early 20th century
First published
2009 by Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi
Author's age
37 when first published
ISBN

9789953683973 (original)

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