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One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Witty, poetic, erotic and brutal, One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Maddened by the discovery of his wife's orgies, King Shahrayar believes all women are unfaithful and vows to marry a virgin every night and ki ...Show more
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
New York, 2001 As Hanan al-Shaykh travels through the streets of Manhattan to her daughter's wedding her mind is elsewhere. Remembering own secret ceremony some thirty years ago, her thoughts turn to her mother, Kamila, who was sacrificed into marriage: her absent mother who, in recent, reconciled year ...Show more
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From a major novelist of the Arab world comes a bold, witty and highly contemporary novel about two women looking for love, set in Italy, Lebanon and London Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean which feel like forbidden fruit, denied dur ...Show more
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it's only on their rarely snatched holidays that the friends can catch up. As they swim, drink and talk by the glittering Italian Riviera, Huda and Yvon ...Show more
Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In an unnamed Middle Eastern city, four women from different social and cultural backgrounds tell their story. There is Suha, an educated Lebanese woman brought to the desert by her husband; Tamr, who must fight against male rule to educate herself; Suzanne, captivated by the men and the mystery of the ...Show more
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