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Archipelago Books

As Though She Were Sleeping

As Though She Were Sleeping

by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth

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Milia's response to her new husband Mansour and to the Arab World of 1947 is to close her eyes and drift into parallel worlds. Identities shift. Present, past, and future mingle and merge: she finds herself able to converse with the dead and foresee the future. As the novel progresses in glimpses, Milia's dreams become more navigable than the strange and obstinate "reality" in which she finds herself, and the two realms grow ever more entangled. This wondrous tapestry of love, faith, history, poetry, and vision cuts to the very heart of the deep-rooted conflicts of the region and breaks new literary ground.

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Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9781935744023
Pages: 300
Publication Date:

Praise

Elias Khoury's latest novel returns to a golden age. Beirut in the '30s, unoccupied Palestine and a love affair recalled through a set of dream sequences: an Arab spring of a very different sort.
—Tariq Ali

There has been powerful fiction about Palestinians and by Palestinians, but few have held to the light the myths, tales and rumors of both Israel and the Arabs with such discerning compassion.
—New York Times Book Review

The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury.
—Los Angeles Times Book Review

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