{"product_id":"the-loved-ones-hardcover","title":"The Loved Ones - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlia Mamdouh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Booth\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (\u003ci\u003eTHE NATIONAL\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuhaila lies in a coma in a Paris hospital. The loved ones of the title are the constellation of friends, predominantly women, who flock to Suhaila's side from all over the world to envelope her in the warmth of friendship that may ultimately save her and enable her rebirth. Suhaila comes alive through the stories about her: her excesses, her love of dancing, of wine, and of poetry, despite years of abuse by her Iraqi husband, the bleakness of exile from home, and the frustrating separation from her only son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimately moving, polyphonic narrative of displacement and nomadism, a disjointed, at times disfigured tale that blends diverse time frames so that the past, the present, and the future are unified, interlocked, and intertwined. This award-winning novel is a hymn to friendship and to boundless giving that ultimately restores life--it is a story about memory and history, a story against forgetting.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlia Mamdouh \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Iraq and received her degree in psychology from the University of Mastansariya in 1971. She served as editor-in-chief of al-Rasid magazine from 1970 to 1982. She now lives in Paris. She is the author of Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad (AUC Press, 2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilyn Booth \u003c\/b\u003e(translator) is professor emerita, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Magdalen College, Oxford University. She has translated many works of Arabic fiction into English. Her translations of Omani author Jokha Alharthi include\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitter Orange Tree \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was awarded the International Booker Prize. She has also translated Hoda Barakat, Hassan Daoud, Elias Khoury, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Nawal al-Saadawi. Her research publications focus on Arabophone women's writing and the ideology of gender debates in the nineteenth century, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in \u003c\/i\u003eFin-de-siècle \u003ci\u003eEgypt.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47502240317661,"sku":"9789774249419","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/0BZ2acygbD9789774249419.webp?v=1772051158","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-loved-ones-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}