The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant

by Sahar Khalifeh and Sahar Khalifa

Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2006 This award-winning novel is at once a re-casting of the story of the Holy Family, an ode to Arab Jerusalem, and a call for liberation, not just of a nation but for the individual women and men who inhabit it. After abandoning his beloved Mariam when she falls pregnant, and escaping her brothers' bullets, Ibrahim abandons his own ideals and dreams of becoming a novelist, opting instead to follow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566566991
• ISBN13: 9781566566995
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"