Couverture de Crescent

Crescent

 Aperçu

30 jours d'essai gratuit à Audible Standard

Essayer Standard gratuitement
Choisissez 1 livre audio par mois dans l'ensemble de notre catalogue.
Écoutez les livres audio que vous avez choisis pendant toute la durée de votre abonnement.
Accédez à volonté à des podcasts incontournables.
Gratuit avec l'offre d'essai, ensuite 2,99 €/mois. Possibilité de résilier l'abonnement chaque mois.

Crescent

De : Diana Abu-Jaber
Lu par : Nike Doukas, Marcelo Tubert
Essayer Standard gratuitement

Renouvellement automatique à 2,99 € mois après 30 jours. Annulation possible chaque mois.

Acheter pour 24,23 €

Acheter pour 24,23 €

À propos de ce contenu audio

 Half-Iraqi, half-American Sirine is a cook at Nadia's Cafe, which draws the neighborhood's Arab students, expatriates, and exiles. All are hungry for "real true Arab food" and connection to their homes. One is Hanif Al Eyad, a new hire in the Near Eastern Studies Department at the university who fled Iraq as a young man. Sirine and Han fall in love over food: a baklava they make together, delicate lamb dishes, hummus glistening with olive oil.

Populated by colorful and memorable characters (the lovely Sirine; the handsome Han; Sirine's story-telling uncle, whose fantasic fables are woven into the novel; a poet named Aziz; Nadia and her daughter Mireille) Crescent explores the universal themes of love and loyalty to countries old and new, to those left behind, and to tradition. Some of the characters are learning to live in one country and let go of another, and some are not: a fact that sparks a surprising ending.

©2003 Diana Abu-Jaber (P)2003 HighBridge Company Fiction Fiction historique Littérature du monde Roman féminin

Commentaires

"Abu-Jaber's language is miraculous." (Booklist)
"A beautifully imagined and timely novel...Abu-Jaber's poignant contemplations of exile and her celebration of Sirine's exotic, committed domesticity...help make this novel feel as exquisite as the 'flaming, blooming' mejnoona tree behind Nadia's Cafe." (Publishers Weekly)
Tout
Le plus pertinent
I thoroughly enjoyed the novel but the Indian /Pakistani accent the readers took on to impersonate the Middle Eastern Arab characters was clearly a bad choice and spoils the performance.

great novel but performance could have been better

Une erreur s'est produite. Réessayez dans quelques minutes.