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The Children of the Ghetto: I : My Name Is Adam
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by Khoury, Elias

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  • Title The Children of the Ghetto: I : My Name Is Adam
  • Author Khoury, Elias
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Steerforth Press
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 40683470-6
  • ISBN 9781939810137 / 1939810132
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 6 x 1.1 in (19.05 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Palestinian Arabs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018033607
  • Dewey Decimal Code 892.736

About the author

Elias Khoury is the author of 13 novels, 4 volumes of literary criticism, and 3 plays. For 12 years he was a Prof. of Middle Eastern and Arabic Studies at New York University and has also taught at Columbia University. He won the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun, also named a Best Book of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and a Notable Book by The New York Times. As Though She Were Sleeping won France's inaugural Arabic Novel Prize. In 2016, he was awarded the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity. About the translator Humphrey Davies is a translator of Arabic fiction, historical, and classical texts. His translations include Elias Khoury's Yalo, Naguid Mahfouz's Thebes at War and Midaqq Alley, Alla Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building and Friendly Fire, Hamdy el-Gazzar's Black Magic, Mohamed Mustagab's Tales of Dayrut, and the four-volume 19th century Arabic experimental novel, Leg over Leg, by Faris Al-Shidyaq. A two-time winner of the Banipal Prize, he is also the recipient of the English PEN Writers In Translation Award. Davies lives in Cairo.

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