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02407aam a2200493 i 4500 001 DC15527C047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201002011536 008 191209t20202020nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019055958 020 $a 0525655131 020 $a 9780525655138 035 $a (OCoLC)1128194553 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d FNN $d YDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 041 0 $a ara $a ara 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-sy--- 050 00 $a PJ7970 A58 K4813 2020 100 1 $a WannuÌs, DiÌmaÌ, $d 1982- $e author. 240 10 $a Khaifoun. $l English 245 14 $a The frightened ones / $c Dima Wannous ; translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette. 250 $a First United States edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2020. 300 $a 195 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book." 520 $a "In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets the strange and reticent Nassim and soon the two begin a strained relationship. But when Nassim, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he gives Suleima the manuscript for his most recent novel, whose protagonist's life bears discomforting similarities to her own. Whose story is it? What is fact and what is fiction? Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman in Nassim's novel, The Frightened Ones is a probing examination of life in Assad's Syria and the devastating effects of oppression on one's sense of identity"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Individuality $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Philosophical concept) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Manuscripts $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Syria $x History $y Civil War, 2011- $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Jaquette, Elisabeth, $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a WannuÌs, DiÌmaÌ, 1982- $t The frightened ones $b First edition. $d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020] $z 9780525655145 $w (DLC) 2019055959 941 $a 7 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014017.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015551.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20210428011842.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105041127.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210105034732.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20201117010036.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201105010058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC15527C047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search