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- catalog abstract "Hamid Ibn-Mustafa Al-Bahairi left the village of his birth at the age of ten and went to seek his fortune in Europe. Paris made him rich, and he is now a successful business man, married to an educated cosmopolitan French woman. But when he decides to visit his original family home in the eastern region of the Nile Delta, he unwittingly condemns both his wife and the village to become locked in a series of frustrating and disturbing encounters - cultural, religious and. Emotional - which are politely glossed over at first, until they finally become the makings of grim tragedy. Told through the voices of the principal local protagonists in this tense drama (the officials, Hamid and his brother, the fiercely jealous women, the only French-speaking villager - but never the visiting Simone), Voices gives an objective but deeply compassionate glimpse of people's lives thrown into confusion. The familiar and the strange continually press upon. Each other as the villagers struggle to come to terms with what was originally intended to be the joyful return of a favorite son.".
- catalog alternative "Aṣwāt. English".
- catalog contributor b3838756.
- catalog contributor b3838757.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Each other as the villagers struggle to come to terms with what was originally intended to be the joyful return of a favorite son.".
- catalog description "Emotional - which are politely glossed over at first, until they finally become the makings of grim tragedy. Told through the voices of the principal local protagonists in this tense drama (the officials, Hamid and his brother, the fiercely jealous women, the only French-speaking villager - but never the visiting Simone), Voices gives an objective but deeply compassionate glimpse of people's lives thrown into confusion. The familiar and the strange continually press upon.".
- catalog description "Hamid Ibn-Mustafa Al-Bahairi left the village of his birth at the age of ten and went to seek his fortune in Europe. Paris made him rich, and he is now a successful business man, married to an educated cosmopolitan French woman. But when he decides to visit his original family home in the eastern region of the Nile Delta, he unwittingly condemns both his wife and the village to become locked in a series of frustrating and disturbing encounters - cultural, religious and.".
- catalog extent "112 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Voices.".
- catalog identifier "0714529451 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voices.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng ara".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Marion Boyars Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Voices.".
- catalog subject "892/.736 20".
- catalog subject "Fiction, General.".
- catalog subject "PJ7824.A95 A913 1993".
- catalog title "Aṣwāt. English".
- catalog title "Voices : a novel / Soleiman Fayyad ; translated from the Arabic with an introduction by Hosam Aboul-Ela.".
- catalog type "Love stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".