Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet: Damascus Is Asleep

Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet: Damascus Is Asleep

by Professor Peter Clark (Translator), Ulfat Idilbi (Author)

Synopsis

Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920s. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness during her painful life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Quartet Books
Published: 01 Oct 1995

ISBN 10: 0704302543
ISBN 13: 9780704302549

Media Reviews
Sabriya is a haunting, accomplished novel about the lives of women in 1920's Syria... Idilbi's stately prose is relentless in its exposure of Sabriya's despair... [This novel] reveals Ulfat Idilbi as the possessor of a singular, passionate voice which is all her own.