Baytuna al-Kabir بيتنا الكبير

By: Raihane, Rabia (Rayhan, Rabia) ربيعة ريحان
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Baytuna al-Kabir بيتنا الكبير

Language: Arabic
Softcover
28.95

بيتنا الكبير بقلم Rabia Rayhan ... التي تركت حضن أمها صغيرة حتى أنها لم تتعرف على نفسها سوى لاحقا، «فريدة» ابنة الضرة «عقيدة» التي ورثت منها بعض الملامح جسدا وروحا. رحلت بصحبة أبيها منذ زمن بعيد، في الستينيات من القرن الماضي، لتلتحق بالبيت الكبير مع جدها «كبور» والأعمام وأولادهم بعيدا عن أمها لتكبر في كنف زوجة أبيها وأخواتها غير الأشقاء. توتر المشهد، جلوسها متربعة فوق ظهر عربة بخدين ورديين وعينين فاتحتين وشعر أشعث بفعل الريح، وفستانا الطويل الأسود ذا النقاط البيضاء، وصندلها البني الذي تطل منه أصابع قدميها الجافة، بندوبها الظاهرة، من كثرة ما اصطدمت بالحجارة والسكوم وسدر النب...
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Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Arab Booker)«The Family House», a novel in the Arabic language by Moroccan novelist Rabia Raihane (Rayhan).
The novel is set in Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century. Farida relates memories of her childhood and growing up in ‘the family house’ built by her grandfather Kabour, a strong, brave and chivalrous man who fled his village after a physical altercation with a local official who had attacked a farmer. In his new abode on the banks of the Tensift River, near the city of Safi, Kabour establishe...
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Topic: Arabic Fiction - Morocco|9789774906336|

Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

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By:Raihane, Rabia (Rayhan, Rabia) ربيعة ريحان
Language:Arabic
Format:Softcover
Pages: 302 pp
Publisher:Dar al-Ayn lil-Nashr, Cairo 2023
Dimensions:14 x 21 cm
ISBN-13:9789774906336
Topic:Arabic Fiction - Morocco

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About the author
Rabia Raihane is a Moroccan novelist and short story writer, born in Morocco in 1951. She is the head of the Moroccan Forum for Culture and the Arts, and the founder of the Safi Festival of Female Creativity. For two years, she was head of the Moroccan Writers’ Union. She has published eight short story collections, one of which, Women’s Rain (1999), won the Female Creativity Prize in the UAE. In addition to The Family House (2022), she has published two earlier novels, Ways of Loving (2013) and Aunt Um Hani (2020)

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