Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber
(Author)
Description
Sirine, the heroine of this deliciously romantic romp (Vanity Fair) is thirty-nine, never married, and living in the Arab-American community of Los Angeles. She has a passion for cooking and works contentedly in a Lebanese restaurant, while her storytelling uncle and her saucy boss, Umm Nadia, believe she should be trying harder to find a husband. One day Hanif, a handsome professor of Arabic literature, an Iraqi exile, comes to the restaurant. Sirine falls in love and finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about Hanif, as well as her own torn identity as an Arab-American.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
May 17, 2004
Pages
398
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 1.0 inches | 0.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393325546
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About the Author
Diana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Reviews
[A] beautifully imagined and timely novel.
A story that unfolds beautifully, as lightly and naturally as a roll of silk.
[A] lovely tale...an urgent mix of Scheherazade-style storytelling and treatise on the loneliness of exile.--Andrea Spencer
Abu-Jaber is a high-spirited, magnificently graceful storyteller, a poet of deliciously fluted fiction, character, and culture.--Naomi Shihab Nye
A powerful story about the loneliness of exile and the limits of love. An impressive second outing by Abu-Jaber.
It is a story about how to cook and how to eat, and how to live in the new country. And, like all good novels, it is about how to tell a story.--Sigrid Nunez
Wise, spirited, and evocative.
Gorgeously written and deeply imagined, this novel is both a fable and a plea--a book that weaves a hypnotic, lasting spell.--Beth Kephart
Crescent is a rich, delicious concoction that has you rooting for the star-crossed lovers.--John Muncie
A story that unfolds beautifully, as lightly and naturally as a roll of silk.
[A] lovely tale...an urgent mix of Scheherazade-style storytelling and treatise on the loneliness of exile.--Andrea Spencer
Abu-Jaber is a high-spirited, magnificently graceful storyteller, a poet of deliciously fluted fiction, character, and culture.--Naomi Shihab Nye
A powerful story about the loneliness of exile and the limits of love. An impressive second outing by Abu-Jaber.
It is a story about how to cook and how to eat, and how to live in the new country. And, like all good novels, it is about how to tell a story.--Sigrid Nunez
Wise, spirited, and evocative.
Gorgeously written and deeply imagined, this novel is both a fable and a plea--a book that weaves a hypnotic, lasting spell.--Beth Kephart
Crescent is a rich, delicious concoction that has you rooting for the star-crossed lovers.--John Muncie
