02348nam 2200589 450 991082492310332120220521181631.01-61797-553-21-61797-552-4(CKB)3710000000244822(EBL)1793197(SSID)ssj0001375265(PQKBManifestationID)11888243(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001375265(PQKBWorkID)11336509(PQKB)11282463(MiAaPQ)EBC1791130(MiAaPQ)EBC6242545(Au-PeEL)EBL6242545(OCoLC)1163531645(EXLCZ)99371000000024482220220521h20142009 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtccrDates on my fingers an Iraqi novel /Muhsin al-Ramli ; translated by Luke LeafgrenCairo, Egypt ;New York, New York :The American University in Cairo Press,[2014]©20091 online resource (203 p.)Modern Arabic LiteratureDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-15059-1 977-416-644-2 Title Page; Copyright Page; Novel; Translator''s AcknowledgmentsSaleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade. Noah looks and acts like a new man, and Saleem sets out to discover the mystery of his father's presence in Spain and his altered life. In doing so, he recalls formative moments in Iraq of familial love, war, and the haunting accidental death of his cousin Aliya, Saleem's partner in the hesitant, tModern Arabic literature.Fathers and sonsFictionIraqFictionSpainFictionFathers and sons813.54Ramlī Muḥsin1619542Leafgren LukeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824923103321Dates on my fingers3951846UNINA