Songs for the Dead and the Living / Sara M. Saleh
- Bib ID:
- 10008649
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Saleh, Sara M, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the State Library Victoria, National Library of Australia
- Description:
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- South Melbourne, Vic' : Affirm Press, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.8MB
- ISBN:
- 9781922930873
- Summary:
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...a coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia... -- publisher.
Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious, and they must try to blend in even as they fight to retain their identity. When conflict comes to Beirut, Jamilah's world fractures, and the family is forced to flee to Cairo: another escape, and another slip further away from Palestine, the homeland to which they cannot return. In the end, Jamilah will have to choose between holding on to everything she knows and pursuing a life she can truly call her own.
When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious, and they must try to blend in even as they fight to retain their identity. When conflict comes to Beirut, Jamilah's world fractures, and the family is forced to flee to Cairo: another escape, and another slip further away from Palestine, the homeland to which they cannot return. In the end, Jamilah will have to choose between holding on to everything she knows and pursuing a life she can truly call her own.
When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house above a paint shop on the outskirts of Beirut, with her large, chaotic, loving family. But she soon learns that as Palestinian refugees, her family's life in Lebanon is precarious, and they must try to blend in even as they fight to retain their identity. When conflict comes to Beirut, Jamilah's world fractures, and the family is forced to flee to Cairo: another escape, and another slip further away from Palestine, the homeland to which they cannot return. In the end, Jamilah will have to choose between holding on to everything she knows and pursuing a life she can truly call her own. Songs for the Dead and the Living is a coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia. Through stunning prose, acclaimed writer and human-rights activist Sara M Saleh offers a breathtaking portrait of the fragilities and flaws of family in the wake of war, and the love it takes to overcome great loss.
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction -- Women authors
- Bildungsromans
- Families -- Fiction
- Palestinian Arabs -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Families
- Palestinian Arabs
- Refugees
- Beirut (Lebanon) -- Fiction
- Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction
- Palestine -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Egypt -- Cairo
- Lebanon -- Beirut
- Middle East -- Palestine
- New South Wales -- Sydney
- AUS fiction (Australia)
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- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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