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Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights

by Miralal - Tahawy (Author)

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Synopsis

"Brooklyn Heights", the fourth novel by award-winning Egyptian author Miral El-Tahawy, revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight year old son after the painful break-up of her marriage.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 May 2013
ISBN 10: 0571280056
ISBN 13: 9780571280056
Book Overview: Brooklyn Heights by Miral al-Tahawy is a novel of displacement and discovery from one of Egypt's most exciting new voices.

Author Bio
Critically acclaimed Egyptian author, Miral al-Tahawy was born in Sharqiya in the Egyptian Delta into a Bedouin family of the al-Hanadi tribe. The youngest of seven children, she is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, and Director of the Arabic program at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. Her previous works The Tent (1998), Blue Aubergine (2002), Gazelle Tracks (2009)have collectively been translated into many languages. Brooklyn Heights is her first novel to be published in English.