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Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas Hardcover - 1996
by Lawrence Weschler
"These three essays, these novellas--call them what you will--are extraordinary tales about excruciating modern themes: individual responsibility, national identity, and courage. In each case, the reader has to ask himself: What would I have done? 3 halftones.
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Initially not much was known about Samir al-Khalil.
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- Title Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas
- Author Lawrence Weschler
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 211
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date May 23, 1996
- ISBN 9780226893938 / 0226893936
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6.44 x 0.99 in (22.35 x 16.36 x 2.51 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Breytenbach, Breyten, Makiya, Kanan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97044620
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.484
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- Booklist, 02/15/1998, Page 956
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/1998, Page 394
- New York Times, 06/28/1998, Page 18
- Publishers Weekly, 03/09/1998, Page 54
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/1999, Page 15
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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xii, 199, [3] pages. Illustrations. Index. Some sticker residue on the front and back of the DJ. Scuff on fep. Minor page soiling noted. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Kate and Hesh at home in my heart Love Lawrence Weschler. The three narratives by Lawrence Weschler here joined together were conceived from the start as a sort of triptych: three tales about basically decent expatriates (the first an Iraqi, the second a Czech, the third an Afrikaner), each of whom tries to do the right thing with regard to the totalitarian regime holding sway over his homeland--the thing we readers, too, might have done, if only we were much more courageous than we are--only to end up thoroughly wracked and bollixed. Taken together, these gripping narratives afford a sort of double catscan into the natures of both modern totalitarianism and timeless exile. Like all drama, the battle…
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