Book Size: 5.25" x 8"
Pages: 248
Format: Hardback & Paperback
ISBN: 9781566564427 HB ISBN: 9781566562546 PB
Imprint: Interlink Books
Edition: 1
Translator: Peter Clark
Category: LiteratureSabriya
Damascus Bitter Sweet
By Ulfat Idilbi
Paperback $ 15.00 | Hardback $ 29.95“Sabriya is a haunting, accomplished novel about the lives of women in 1920’s Syria… Idilbi’s stately prose is relentless in its exposure of Sabriya’s despair… [This novel] reveals Ulfat Idilbi as the possessor of a singular, passionate voice which is all her own.” — Financial Times
About this book
Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's.
Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness during her painful life. The national revolt is crushed by superior foreign power and Sabriya's personal emancipation is stifled by the traditional values of a patriarchal society. Written from the point of view of a young girl passionately committed to the nationalist cause but unable, because of her sex, to take an active part, it seethes with the frustrated energy of the reluctant bystander and vividly expresses the terror of civilians living in a city rocked nightly by explosions.
Brand: Ulfat IdilbiAbout the author
Ulfat Idilbi was born in 1912 in Damascus, Syria. Her first novel Sabriya (published by Interlink) has been dramatized for Syrian Television.
Reviews
“Sabriya is a haunting, accomplished novel about the lives of women in 1920’s Syria… Idilbi’s stately prose is relentless in its exposure of Sabriya’s despair… [This novel] reveals Ulfat Idilbi as the possessor of a singular, passionate voice which is all her own.” — Financial Times
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