Anne Sanow

Triple Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For Jill, a young American living in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s, life is in "a holding pattern" of long days in a restrictive place-"sandlocked nowhere," as another expat calls it. Others don't know how to leave, and try to adopt the country as their own. And to those who were born there, the changes seem to come at warp speed: Thurayya, the daughter of a Bedouin chief, later finds herself living in a Riyadh high-rise where, she says, there are "worlds wound together with years." > Beneath a surface of cultural upheaval, the stories hold deeper, more personal meanings. They tell of yearnings-for a time lost, for a homeland, for belonging, and for love. Anne Sanow reveals much about the culture, psyche, and essence of life in modern Saudi Arabia, where Saudis struggle to keep their traditions and foreigners muddle through in search of a quick buck or a last chance at making a life for themselves in a world that is quickly running out of hiding places.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 154mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780822963141
• ISBN-10: 0822963140
• Artikelnr.: 40919333

Autorenporträt

Anne Sanow was born and raised in California and moved to Saudi Arabia for two years following her high school graduation. Her stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Crab Orchard Review, and Malahat Review, among other publications. She has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize.