Outside of time, the legendary queen Sheherazade tells a little girl a story that has happened, and is yet to happen. Dreams of Maryam Tair brings readers to a Casablanca of myth and metaphor, of curses, witches, djinns and demons. But it is also a very present-day Casablanca: a raw, pitiless landsc
Dreams Of Maryam Tair: Blue Boots And Orange Blossoms
β Scribed by Alaoui, Mhani
- Publisher
- Interlink Publishing; Interlink Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Northampton, MA
- ISBN
- 1623710731
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Book Name; Title; Copyright; Content; Dedication; Part I; Sheherazade and the Little Girl; Leila; Adam; Leila and Adam; The Myth of Adam, Lilith, and Maryam; The Lair; Zohra; Aisha and Ibrahim; The Garden; The House; Crossroads; Hamza; Birth; Three Gifts and a Curse; Part II; Rebellion; Sheherazade; Desire; Shawg and Adam; Fire and Water; Grand Tribunal; School; Perception; Disillusionment; Grand Tribunal; Yasmine; The Journey; Thought; Mourning; Part III; Departure; Grand Tribunal; Betrayal; Innernet; Shams and Hilal; Cain and Abel; Aisha; Heart; Al-Batina; Power and Shame; Revelation.;Outside of time, the legendary queen Sheherazade tells a little girl a story that has happened, and is yet to happen. Dreams of Maryam Tair brings readers to a Casablanca of myth and metaphor, of curses, witches, djinns and demons. But it is also a very present-day Casablanca: a raw, pitiless landscape of crumbling urbanism and rusty ports, of bureaucrats and student revolts, and of a deep human solitude. During the Casablanca Bread Riots of 1981, a child is born to a mother surveilled and detained. She is born with the scent of orange blossoms and a body filled with pain. They call her Maryam Tair. A special, singular child, she is prophesized to carry three perfect gifts'and one relentless curse.
β¦ Subjects
FICTION -- Literary
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