Sarmada / by Fadi Azzam ; translated from the Arabic by Adam Talib.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Northampton, Mass. : Interlink Books, 2012Edition: 1st American edDescription: ii, 216 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781566568722; 1566568722; 9781566568623; 1566568625Uniform titles: سرمدة. الانكليزية Uniform titles: Sarmadah. English Subject(s): Women -- Syria -- Fiction | Religious tolerance -- Syria -- Fiction | Druzes -- Syria -- Fiction | Druzes | Religious tolerance | Women | SyriaGenre/Form: Arabic fiction -- Syria -- 21st century. | Fiction. | Arabic fiction -- Translations into English.DDC classification: 892.7/37 LOC classification: PJ7914.Z88 | S2713 2012Summary: A world away from Damascus, in the remote hills of Syria, lies Sarmada, a Druze village whose people and landscape are animated with a strange magic. In the rocky isolation of Sarmada, words take on new meanings and people take on new format, as fantasy, sex, transmigrating souls, potions and soothsayers all conspire. The country may struggle against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, the French, and then the Ba'ath, but in the village it is the forces of society, family, and passion that are all-important. Through the stories of three of Sarmada's women, this bold and dazzling novel portrays desire and destiny in a place beyond history. Fadi Azzam's Sarmada is a captivating, unforgettable debut.
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A world away from Damascus, in the remote hills of Syria, lies Sarmada, a Druze village whose people and landscape are animated with a strange magic. In the rocky isolation of Sarmada, words take on new meanings and people take on new format, as fantasy, sex, transmigrating souls, potions and soothsayers all conspire. The country may struggle against the forces of the Ottoman Empire, the French, and then the Ba'ath, but in the village it is the forces of society, family, and passion that are all-important. Through the stories of three of Sarmada's women, this bold and dazzling novel portrays desire and destiny in a place beyond history. Fadi Azzam's Sarmada is a captivating, unforgettable debut.
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