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Calamity of Noble Houses

Amira Ghenim
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20th century
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Arabic fiction
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Historical fiction
history
Middle East
Patriarchal society
Political turmoil
Social change
Tahar Haddad
Trade unions
Tunisia
Tunisian history
Tunisian literature
Women's rights

Product details

  • ISBN 9781787705586
  • Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Mar 2025
  • Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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"A kaleidoscopic portrait of Tunisian history."--The New York Times

One fateful night in December 1935, the destinies of two prominent families are changed forever. Zubaida, the young wife of Mohsen Ennaifer, is suspected of a clandestine love affair with Tahar, a radical intellectual from humble origins. This scandalous tryst has many facets, many truths, that are recounted in the voices of the eleven different narrators who, in a feat of storytelling virtuosity, animate this spectacular novel. A complex fresco of secrets, memories, accusations, regrets, and passions set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil, in search of its modern identity.  

A compelling, muti-generational story of women’s lives in one of the Arab World’s most intriguing countries, a drama of forbidden love, and a contemporary narrative in which the truth remains forever slightly out of reach, A Calamity of Noble Houses is Amira Ghenim’s English language debut.  
About Amira Ghenim
Amira Ghenim is a Tunisian writer and academic. Her novel The Yellow Dossier won the 2020 Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamad Prize. A Calamity of Noble Houses was published in 2020. Miled Faiza is a poet, translator, and senior lecturer at Brown University. Among his translations are the Booker Prize–shortlisted novel Autumn, and Winter by Ali Smith. Karen McNeil is an Arabic-to-English translator, currently completing a Ph.D. in Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. Together with Miled Faiza, she has translated the 2016 IPAF winner The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout (Europa, 2021). She is also the translator of several poems and short stories for Banipal and World Literature Today.

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