On the eve of Salma's twenty-first birthday, friends and family travel to New York for a celebration reluctantly organized by her grandfather Darwish. As the guests make their way to the party, each journey takes on a greater significance than a simple trip to the city, as they find themselves examining their pasts, their relationships to one another, and to the country in which they live. Between Cairo and New York, Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge paints a vivid portrait of a fragmented Arab-American family, one struggling to become whole again and to let go of the past.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Ezzedine C. Fishere
EAN: 9789774168192
COUNTRY: Egypt
PAGES: 168
WEIGHT: 163 g
HEIGHT: 205 mm
PUBLISHED BY: The American University in Cairo Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-03-02
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GENRE: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
WIDTH: 130 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and Contemporary romance
Ezzedine C. Fishere is an acclaimed Egyptian writer, academic, and diplomat. He has written numerous successful and bestselling novels and he also writes political articles for Arabic, English, and French news outlets. He currently teaches at Dartmouth College in the US, where he lives. John Peate is a translator, university lecturer, academic researcher, and language consultant based in the UK.