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04130aam a2200541 i 4500 001 F3EE115A56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 230112r20231988nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022000744 020 $a 168137692X 020 $a 9781681376929 035 $a (OCoLC)1358405717 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c LNC $d LNC $d HRF $d OCO $d GRA $d YDX $d OCLCF $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h heb 043 $a awgz--- $a awba--- $a awgz--- 050 00 $a PJ5054.S414 $b A8913 2023 082 00 $a 892.4/36 $2 23/eng/20220111 100 1 $a Shammas, Anton, $e author. 240 10 $a Ê»ArabeskÌ£ot. $l English 245 10 $a Arabesques / $c Anton Shammas ; translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden ; afterword by Elias Khoury. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 269 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books classics 520 $a "Chosen by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1988, Arabesques is a luminous novel that engages with history and politics not as propaganda but as literature.That engagement begins with the language in which the book is written: Anton Shammas, from a Palestinian Christian family and raised in Israel, wrote in Hebrew, as no Arab novelist had before. The choice was provocative to both Arab and Jewish readers. Arabesques is divided into two sections: "The Tale" and "The Teller." "The Tale" tells of several generations of family life in a rural village, of the interplay of past and present, of how memory intersects with history in a part of the world where different people have both lived together and struggled against each other for centuries. "The Teller" is about the writer's voyage out of that world to Paris and the United States, as he comes into his vocation as a writer, and raises questions about the authority of the storyteller and the nature of the self. Shammas's tour de force is both a personal and a political narrative--a reinvention of the novel as a way of envisioning and responding to historical and cultural legacies and conflicts"-- $c Back cover. 520 $a "In 1986 Israeli writers and readers alike were startled by the appearance of a novel about an Arab village in the Galilee and the protean identity of its narrator. That this first novel was written in resourceful and often eloquent Hebrew and in a highly sophisticated narrative mode was remarkable enough. But even more provocative and significant was the identity of the author. For Anton Shammas was not another aspiring Jewish author haunted by the shadow world of the Palesitinains--a familiar theme in Israeli literature--but an author who regarded himself as an Israeli Palestinian, an impossible combination in itself. Shammas wrote Arabesques, in part, to serve as his "real identity card," the first to be issued for a bi-national culture in that fiercely divided land"-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a In English, translated from Hebrew. 650 0 $a Hebrew literature $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Families $z Palestine $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Palestinian Arabs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Palestinian Arabs $z Israel $x Ethnic identity $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Palestinian Arabs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01051590 650 7 $a Palestinian Arabs $x Ethnic identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01051605 651 0 $a Galilee (Israel) $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Israel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204236 651 7 $a Israel $z Galilee. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239899 651 7 $a Middle East $z Palestine. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207534 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 775 08 $i Reproduction of (manifestation): $a Shammas, Anton. $t Arabesques $d New York : Harper & Row, c1988 $w (DLC) 87045665 700 1 $a Eden, Vivian Sohn, $e translator. 700 1 $a KhuÌriÌ, IlyaÌs, $e writer of afterword. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F3EE115A56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search