Before the queen falls asleep / Huzama Habayeb ; translated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen.

By:

Habayeb, Huzama

Contributor(s):

Heikkinen, Kay [translator]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 282 pages : 20 cmISBN:

9781529415650

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

892.737 HAB

Summary: Before the Queen Falls Asleep is a literary novel centered on Jihad, a Palestinian woman living in exile. As her daughter Maleka prepares to leave home for university, Jihad recounts the story of her life from her childhood in a displaced Palestinian family in Kuwait to adulthood in Jordan and Dubai. Through memories of love, loss, family struggles, and displacement, the novel explores themes of motherhood, identity, resilience, and the Palestinian diaspora.

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Before the Queen Falls Asleep is a literary novel centered on Jihad, a Palestinian woman living in exile. As her daughter Maleka prepares to leave home for university, Jihad recounts the story of her life from her childhood in a displaced Palestinian family in Kuwait to adulthood in Jordan and Dubai. Through memories of love, loss, family struggles, and displacement, the novel explores themes of motherhood, identity, resilience, and the Palestinian diaspora.

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Before the queen falls asleep / Huzama Habayeb ; translated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen.