书籍详情
格式
平装书
语言
英语
已发布
Jan 1, 1986
出版商
American University in Cairo
ISBN-10
9774249232
ISBN-13
9789774249235
描述
"This first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in English in the United States is a hallucinatory incantationâ¦an ode to a cityâ¦(with) its private courtyards and public baths where the women in Huda's life rage and pray and love and scream."-Ms. Magazine
Now in paperback, Naphtalene captures a fierce and defiant young girl as she struggles to form her identity in 1950s Baghdad amid a world of unfulfilled women and family tragedies.
Iraqi exile Alia Mamdouh is a journalist, essayist, and novelist living in Paris who received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature in 2004.
Now in paperback, Naphtalene captures a fierce and defiant young girl as she struggles to form her identity in 1950s Baghdad amid a world of unfulfilled women and family tragedies.
Iraqi exile Alia Mamdouh is a journalist, essayist, and novelist living in Paris who received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature in 2004.