My Thousand & One Nights: A Novel of Mecca

My Thousand & One Nights: A Novel of Mecca - Hardcover

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My Thousand & One Nights: A Novel of Mecca - Hardcover

My Thousand & One Nights: A Novel of Mecca - Hardcover

by Raja Alem
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Book Overview

The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand and One Nights, women hold center stage--especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of the Water Carriers' Sheik.

This faraway time and setting become compellingly real as we follow the intimate drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherworld.

Jummo's world, veiled and invisible to outsiders until this telling of her story, has the feel of the true center of an Arabia that has come to us in many exotic and threatening disguises. Jummo's Mecca is a different world, with different narrative strategies, but the dramatic problems are universal: how lethal is love, how dangerous are woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality?
ISBN9780815608660
Author Raja Alem
PublisherSyracuse University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages292
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Raja Alem

Raja Alem is the author of seven novels, many plays, and collections of poetry. She lives in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. Tom McDonough is the author of a novel, Virgin with Child, and a short story collection, Light Years. His cinematography won an Academy Award for the feature documentary Best Boy.

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