Abou and the Angel Cohen

By Claude Campbell and Claude Campell

Abou Ben Adhem, a Palestinian, copes by day with village political intrigue, Arab-Israeli violence and his own family turmoil, interspersed with nightly conversations with an angel named Cohen about the roots of mankind's behavior through the ages, in this poignant and ironic novel set in Gaza in 2001.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882593510
• ISBN13: 9781882593514
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A moving, powerful, and recommended book

Abou And The Angel Cohen by Claude Campbell is an original, ironic, humorous, and sometimes tragic novel of conflict in the Gaza Strip in the Middle East, with a plot based in part on a classic 1834 poem "Abou Ben Adhem" about how and angel comes to Abou one night. Problems amount for the modern-day Abou Ben Adhem as family conflicts and a looming political situation seems to spiral out of control, an angel's guidance can bring wisdom and comfort in unexpected ways. A moving, powerful, and recommended book, Abou And The Angel Cohen will grip the reader's rapt attention from first page to last.