Fencing with the king : a novel /
Abu-Jaber, Diana,
Fencing with the king : a novel / Diana Abu-Jaber. - First edition. - x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of "Crescent." Amani is hooked on a mystery -- a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king's sixtieth birthday -- and to fence with the king, as in their youth. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated -- and dangerous -- after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life. "Fencing with the King" masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future"--
9780393867718 0393867714
2021042897
GBC210163 bnb
020466397 Uk
Poetry--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Kings and rulers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Jordan--Fiction.
Middle East--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Fencing with the king : a novel / Diana Abu-Jaber. - First edition. - x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of "Crescent." Amani is hooked on a mystery -- a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king's sixtieth birthday -- and to fence with the king, as in their youth. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated -- and dangerous -- after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life. "Fencing with the King" masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future"--
9780393867718 0393867714
2021042897
GBC210163 bnb
020466397 Uk
Poetry--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Kings and rulers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Jordan--Fiction.
Middle East--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.