Dates on my fingers : an Iraqi novel / / Muhsin al-Ramli ; translated by Luke Leafgren

• Autore: Ramlī Muḥsin
• Pubblicazione: Cairo, Egypt ; ; New York, New York : , : The American University in Cairo Press, , [2014]; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Soggetto topico: Fathers and sons
• Soggetto geografico: Iraq Fiction; Spain Fiction
• Persona (resp. second.): LeafgrenLuke
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Novel; Translator''s Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Saleem, 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, t
• Titolo autorizzato: Dates on my fingers
• ISBN: 1-61797-553-2; 1-61797-552-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787172203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Modern Arabic literature.