Hunters in a Narrow Street [a novel]

By Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Jabra J. Jabra

Book Overview

Jameel Farran, a Christian Arab, is forced to flee his destroyed Jerusalem in 1948. Teaching at Baghdad University, he falls in love with a beautiful Muslim girl, Sulafa, but their turbulent affair meets almost insurmountable obstacles of tradition and circumstance. This is a story of multiple conflicts between Arab and Jew, desert and city, dictatorship and futile liberal effort, Eastern tradition and Western innovation. Jabra s Baghdad is a city filled with strife, squalor, and frustration; his picture of the brothels, the streets, the drawing rooms, and the lecture halls is a rich and powerful one, realistic and profoundly disturbing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089410585X
• ISBN13: 9780894105852
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"