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Product Identifiers
PublisherInterlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN-101566560926
ISBN-139781566560924
eBay Product ID (ePID)208513231
Product Key Features
Book TitleAli and His Russian Mother
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicContemporary Women, Literary, Coming of Age
GenreFiction
AuthorAlexandra Chreiteh
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight3.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-014302
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal892.7/37
SynopsisA fresh, daring voice in arabic literature today. Alexandra Chreiteh's Ali and his Russian Mother is at once an ordinary and extraordinary story of two young people in Lebanon. At the outbreak of the July War in 2006, the novel's unnamed young protagonist reconnects with her childhood friend and develops a little crush on him, as they flee the bombs unleashed upon their country by Israel. Displaced, along with a million others across the country, she and her Russian mother have joined an evacuation for Russian citizens, when she again meets up with Ali, her former schoolmate from the South, who also has a Russian (Ukrainian) mother. As the two friends reunite, chat, and bond during a harrowing bus caravan across the Syrian border to Lattakia, en route to Moscow, Chreiteh's unique, comic sense of the absurd speaks to contradictions faced by a young generation in Lebanon now, sounding out taboos surrounding gender, sexual, religious, and national identities. Carrying Russian passports like their mothers--both of whom married Lebanese men and settled there--they are forced to reflect upon their choices, and lack of them, in a country that is yet again being torn apart by violent conflict. Like Chreiteh's acclaimed first novel, Always Coca-Cola, this story employs deceptively simple language and style to push the boundaries of what can be talked about in Arabic fiction. Again focused on the preoccupations of young people and their hopes for the future, Ali and his Russian Mother represents a fresh, daring voice in Arabic literature today.
LC Classification NumberPJ7962.H74A4513 2015
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