01983nam 22004213 450 991082321360332120210901203329.01-61797-791-8(CKB)4100000011341037(MiAaPQ)EBC6242492(Au-PeEL)EBL6242492(OCoLC)1195823230(EXLCZ)99410000001134103720210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNo Road to Paradise A NovelLa Vergne :The American University in Cairo Press,2017.©2017.1 online resource (179 pages)Hoopoe FictionIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Selected Hoopoe Titles.When the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diagnosed with cancer, the illness he fears and has expected for years, he takes the radical decision to abandon the life he inherited from his father. He was persuaded to wear the robe and turban in his youth to preserve the family tradition and entered into an arranged marriage. While his grandfather and father were once powerful imams, he displays no interest in the mosque. The wife, for whom he feels no affection, attends to her chores and nurses his father, now sick and bedridden, in his house. Though he worries about his two sons, who were born deaf and mute, he takes no measures to secure a special education for them.Hoopoe FictionNo Road to Paradise 892.736Daoud Hassan1698940Booth Marilyn691165MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823213603321No Road to Paradise4080811UNINA