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The Story of Zahra A Novel Hanan alShaykh The Story of Zahra A Novel Hanan alShaykh on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Zahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair The Story of Zahra by Hanan AlShaykh Goodreads It is the mid1970’s and while Lebanon is erupting into civil war Zahra’s face is erupting with acne In The Story of Zahra alShaykh’s characters do more than make the political become personal they embody the political The story of Zahra chronicles the journey of a young woman during the Lebanese civil war Fiction Book Review The Story of Zahra by Hanan alShaykh The Story of Zahra Zahra is a misfit mistreated by her mother who brings her along to secret meetings with a lover and by her father a harsh disciplinarian who reacts angrily to her habit of picking at her pimpled face She leaves her parents to stay with an uncle who has fled to Africa to escape being arrested for political activity THE STORY OF ZAHRA by Hanan alShaykh Kirkus Reviews The story this time—reflecting the authors feminist sympathies as well as her preoccupation with the contemporary Arab world—concerns Lebanese Zahra who as a child had been used as cover for her mothers liaisons with another man The Story of Zahra A Novel by Hanan alShaykh Hanan Hanan alShaykh an awardwinning journalist novelist and playwright is the author of the short story collection I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops the novels The Story of Zahra Women of Sand and Myrrh Beirut Blues and Only in London and a memoir about her mother The Locust and the Bird The Story of Zahra Back in Beirut love finally comes to her but with terrible consequences Banned in several Middle Eastern countries since its original publication The Story of Zahra is an intoxicating provocative story of a young woman’s coming of age in a city torn apart by war The Story of Zahra The Story of Zahra Her third novel The Story of Zahra written in the Arabian Peninsula reflects the conditions of violence she experienced during the first two years of the civil war The bildungsroman or novel of development traces the stages in the life of a lonely abused Shfite girl who flourishes in war The Story of Zahra A Novel 0385472064 by Hanan alShaykh Brand new Book With more than 21000 copies in print of Women Of Sand And Myrrh and more than 15000 copies of The Story Of Zahra Hanan alShaykh is the best known and most admired woman writer of the Arab world The paperback publication of Zahra will bring this passionate and courageous novel to a much larger group of readers The Story of Zahra – Hanan al Shaykh – The Last One The Story of Zahra – Hanan al Shaykh Zahra – she suffers a series of mental breaks in the different phases of her life Dr Shawky – the dr at the beginning that Zahra’s mother uses as a cover to meet with her lover Fatme – Zahra’s mother who Zahra loves but feels deeply betrayed by Those feelings of betrayal turn to bitterness Fatme’ The story of Zahra eBook 1994 Get this from a library The story of Zahra Ḥanān Shaykh Haunted by dark memories of deception and abuse by her parents Zahra begins an affair with a sniper to divert him from his task
