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Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd Dez 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 0857426311ISBN 13: 9780857426314
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary--a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account follows Ransmayr across the globe: from the shadow of Java's volcanoes to the rapids of the Mekong and Danube Rivers, from the drift ice of the Arctic Circle to Himalayan passes, and on to the disenchanted islands of the South Pacific. Ransmayr begins again and again with, 'I saw. . .' recounting to the reader the stories of continents, eras, and landscapes of the soul. Like maps, the episodes come together to become a book of the world--one that charts the life and death, happiness and fate of people bound up in images of breathtaking beauty. 'One of the German language's most gifted young novelists.'--Library Journal, on The Terrors of Ice and Darkness.
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd Dez 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 0857427881ISBN 13: 9780857427885
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom. Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effort to conceive, she participates in Muslim zar rituals. Zohar, the novelâ ¿s narrator, comes into the world, but because his motherâ ¿s breasts are dry, he is nursed by a Muslim peasantâ ¿also believed to be possessedâ ¿who has just given birth to a girl, Masreya. Suckled at the same breasts and united by a rabbiâ ¿s amulet, the milk-twins will be consumed by a passionate, earth-shaking love.  Part fantastical fable, part realistic history, A Land Like You draws on ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathanâ ¿s deep knowledge of North African folk beliefs to create a glittering tapestry in which spirit possession and religious mysticism exist side by side with sober facts about the British occupation of Egypt and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Free Officersâ ¿ Movement. Historical figures such as Gamel Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and King Farouk mingle with Nathanâ ¿s fictional characters in this engaging story. Â.