Brooklyn Heights

Miral al-Tahawy · 2010 CE · Novel · Arabic · Contemporary

Hind, a divorced Egyptian woman of Bedouin descent, moves with her young son to Brooklyn and rents rooms among Arab immigrants. Her memories of the desert and of her family in Egypt press on the cramped present of neighbours and landlords. Al-Tahawy's fourth novel won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal and was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker.

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