An Old Carriage with Curtains (The Arab List), Zaqtan, Wilder 9781803092348^+

Name: An Old Carriage with Curtains (The Arab List), Zaqtan, Wilder 9781803092348^+
Brand: Seagull Books London Ltd

Seagull Books London Ltd

An Old Carriage with CurtainsAuthor(s): Ghassan Zaqtan, Samuel Wilder\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Seagull Books London Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781803092348, 978-1803092348\nSynopsis\nThe concluding novel in a trilogy that has become a landmark of Palestinian fiction.\n\nAn Old Carriage with Curtains is the third and final book in a masterful trilogy of novels encompassing the history of the people of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya. The novels trace the wandering trajectories and inner lives of characters connected to this village across decades, as well as the vicissitudes of historical change and displacement in the land. Through the return of a middle-aged man to the site of an ancient monastery in the hills near Jericho that he once visited as a boy, the incredibly vivid and surprising stories of Hind, a stage actress and brilliant storyteller, the stories of tortuous routes of checkpoints and bureaucratic blockages, and decades of.