by Hanan Al-Shaykh · Bloomsbury Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747561316
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«I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops» is Hanan Al-Shaykh's collection of short stories, published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks in paperback (267 pages, in English).
The stories take place in the contemporary Arab world and portray people caught between tradition and their own desires, between East and West. A wife feigns a mental disorder to escape an unhappy marriage; a Danish missionary lets herself be seduced by a remote Yemeni village; and a widow trying to contact the dead encounters her husband's spirit.
Hanan Al-Shaykh was born in Beirut, educated in Cairo, and lives in London; she also wrote the novels «The Story of Zahra» and «Women of Sand and Myrrh».
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the Arab world, short stories, and female voices, with some touches of magical realism.
Hanan al-Shaykh is a Lebanese author.
