A Pure Heart
a novel
$30.17
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 November 2020
Summary
A Sister’s Secrets: Unraveling a Life in Cairo
Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran lived worlds apart. Rose, an Egyptologist, embraced a new life in New York City, working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after marrying an American journalist. Gameela, deeply devoted to her Muslim faith, remained in Cairo.
Tragedy strikes when Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing in the aftermath of Egypt’s revolution. Rose returns to her homeland, sifting through her sister’s belongings, des…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529317381 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152931738X |
| Author: | Rajia Hassib |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
A captivating novel about family, love, and home.
- Laila Lalami, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Moor’s AccountFull of intelligent reflections about exile, this moving novel about two Egyptian sisters-one in New York, the other in Cairo-carefully dramatizes the curdling of individual dreams in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. - Karan Mahajan, author of National Book Award finalist The Association of Small BombsA multifaceted look at the complicated legacies of identity, religion, and politics in Egypt after the Arab Spring emerges. Even the story of the suicide bomber is given careful consideration in this enlightening, heartrending novel. - Booklist (starred review)[A Pure Heart] fluidly explores how even seismic historical events can mix with everyday emotions such as sibling rivalry and insecurity to concoct a potent brew… . A devastating definition of the new normal in which revolution does not always deliver real power to institute change. - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A stunner of a book. Weaving through the lives of two sisters split by destiny, Hassib’s latest novel is a story of excavation: of countries and people. With the Egyptian revolution as backdrop, Hassib masterfully explores the loyalties, geographies and histories that can both partition and bind family. - Hala Alyan, author of Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Arab American Book Award winner Salt HousesAbout The Author
Rajia Hassib
Rajia Hassib was born and raised in Egypt and moved to the United States when she was twenty-three. Her first novel, In the Language of Miracles, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and received an honorable mention from the Arab American Book Award. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Marshall University, and she has written for The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker online. She lives in West Virginia with her husband and two children.
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