The Pistachio Seller

by Reem Bassiouney

Book Overview

"It was Saturday. I remember. And while he was standing on a step ladder in the hall, changing a light bulb in the faint light coming through the window, I decided to love him." So begins this wonderfully exuberant novel of quixotic adolescent longing and the enduring search for self. Set in middle-class urban Egypt, the story chronicles young Wafaa's struggle to come to terms with her own sexuality and her romantic infatuation with her cousin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609191
• ISBN13: 9780815609193
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"