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Description - The New Belly Dancer of the Universe Contest by Frances Khirallah Noble

In this deftly turned story, author Frances Khirallah Noble presents a tale that is at once sublimely comic and surprisingly erudite in the subjects it tackles. Its hero, Kahlil Gibran Hourani, is an ordinary, in fact rather bumbling, middle-aged Syrian American optician. On the eve of his fifty-third birthday Kali finds himself confronting seminal questions. "I face the last third of my life," he reflects, "and I don't know what to do with myself. Every day I ask how should I be living now? What should I do with the end in sight? Can I come to terms with it?" Enter his dead grandmother, the wisely sardonic Situe. Although she appears in a dream at first and reappears at whim, Situe's presence will turn Kali's life upside down. Through a series of misadventures, Kali is abducted and wrongly suspected of being a terrorist by apparent rogue government agents. His darkly absurd experiences force Kali to question his own perceptions, inviting the reader to do the same. Part myth, part magical realism, always knowing, the book offers a biting critique on issues of race, constitutional rights, and the realities of Arab American life in a post - 9/11 world.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9780815608684
ISBN-10: 0815608683
Format: Hardback
(216mm x 140mm x mm)
Pages: 192
Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publish Date: 15-Dec-2007
Country of Publication: United States

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Author Biography - Frances Khirallah Noble

Frances Khirallah Noble lives in Palm Desert, California. She is the author of The Situe Stories, also published by Syracuse University Press.

Books By Frances Khirallah Noble

Situe Stories by Frances Khirallah Noble
The Situe Stories
Hardback, September 2000