The Resource A word for love, Emily Robbins
A word for love, Emily Robbins
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The item A word for love, Emily Robbins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient, original manuscript of a famous Arabic love story that is said to move its best readers to tears. But once in this foreign country, Bea finds that instead of intensely reading Arabic she is entwined in her host family's complicated lives, as they lock the doors, and whisper anxiously about impending revolution. And suddenly, instead of the ancient love story she sought, it is her daily witness of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet-like romance, between a housemaid and policeman of different cultural and political backgrounds, that astonishes her, changes her, and makes her weep. But as the country drifts toward explosive unrest, Bea wonders how many secrets she can keep, and how long she can fight for a romance that does not belong to her. Ultimately, in a striking twist, Bea's own story begins to mirror that of "The Astonishing Text" that drew her there in the first place, not in the role of one of the lovers, as she might once have imagined, but as the character who lives to tell the story long after the lovers have gone. With melodic meditation on culture, language, and familial devotion. Robbins delivers a powerful novel that questions what it means to love from afar, to be an outsider within a love story, and to take someone else's passion and cradle it until it becomes your own
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- International edition.
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594633584
- Label
- A word for love
- Title
- A word for love
- Statement of responsibility
- Emily Robbins
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient, original manuscript of a famous Arabic love story that is said to move its best readers to tears. But once in this foreign country, Bea finds that instead of intensely reading Arabic she is entwined in her host family's complicated lives, as they lock the doors, and whisper anxiously about impending revolution. And suddenly, instead of the ancient love story she sought, it is her daily witness of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet-like romance, between a housemaid and policeman of different cultural and political backgrounds, that astonishes her, changes her, and makes her weep. But as the country drifts toward explosive unrest, Bea wonders how many secrets she can keep, and how long she can fight for a romance that does not belong to her. Ultimately, in a striking twist, Bea's own story begins to mirror that of "The Astonishing Text" that drew her there in the first place, not in the role of one of the lovers, as she might once have imagined, but as the character who lives to tell the story long after the lovers have gone. With melodic meditation on culture, language, and familial devotion. Robbins delivers a powerful novel that questions what it means to love from afar, to be an outsider within a love story, and to take someone else's passion and cradle it until it becomes your own
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Robbins, Emily
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- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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- American students
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Man-woman relationships
- Empathy
- Culture conflict
- Syria
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A word for love, Emily Robbins
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251110917
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- International edition.
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781594633584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- A word for love, Emily Robbins
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251110917
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- International edition.
- Extent
- 293 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781594633584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
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