Nada Awar Jarrar
Autor de Somewhere, Home
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Nada Awar Jarrar
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Jarrar, Nada Awar
- Nombre legal
- ندا جرار
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1958
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Lebanon
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Paris, France
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Washington, D.C., USA
Beirut, Lebanon - Educación
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (B.A.) (History and Politics of the Middle East)
The American University in Washington, D.C. (M.F.A.) (creative writing) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
- Agente
- David Higham Associates
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 134
- Popularidad
- #151,727
- Valoración
- 3.1
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 21
- Idiomas
- 1
This however is a true portrayal of Arab women who mostly accept their fate and make the best of it. They show their strength in unexpected ways and they are always about loving and caring for others.
The story of three woman coming to terms with migration, early marriages, estranged husbands and identity or more so the liquid state of being and feeling home. The stories of the three women are very loosely connected to an image of an actual house in a village on Mount Lebanon. We meet Maysa as a young woman about to give birth to her only daughter and trying to make herself a home in the village. Then there is Aida who returns to Beirut as a young woman to reclaim memories of the Palestinian refugee who was like a father to her and her sisters and has since passed on and finally the saddest character Salwa, living out her last days in far-away Australia with her children around her, half listening to her, and fussing over her. While she retreats to her memories of a home she left as a child-bride herself many decades ago.
We are left with a sense of sadness and a feeling that these women will never stop searching because the home they have lost can never be reclaimed.… (más)