"In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, with the image of flying cranes - and in particular one wounded bird - as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past an...

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Main Author:	Barakāt, Ḥalīm (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Arabic
Published:	Cairo [u.a.] The American University in Cairo Press 2008
Edition:	1. publ.
Series:	Modern Arabic literature
Subjects:	Barakat, Halim Isber / Translations into English Barakat, Halim Isber > Translations into English Syrian Americans / Fiction Cranes (Birds) / Fiction Cranes (Birds) > Fiction Syrian Americans > Fiction
Summary:	"In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author and sociologist Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, with the image of flying cranes - and in particular one wounded bird - as a continuing symbol of his emotions toward the past and its impact upon his life. The narrator then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences of American college life in the 1960s. He describes his participation in the political protests during that fraught decade, and goes on to depict his later life in the American capital and its surroundings. The link between narrator and author is clearly a close one, and yet the careful way in which the narrative's sequence is constructed allows the reader to invoke the world of the imagination in interpreting this nostalgic account of a Middle Eastern childhood and its international aftermath."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:	157 p. 21 cm
ISBN:	9789774161414