Description
On a turbulent flight from Dubai to London, four strangers—an astute Moroccan prostitute, an Iraqi divorcee, an English scholar of Islamic art, and a Lebanese man on a mysterious delivery—arrive in Britain with lives already in motion and secrets still unfolding. As they move through the city’s streets and social worlds, their paths diverge into love, reinvention, and pursuit, revealing how desire and ambition can both liberate and endanger. With London as a vivid, sensory backdrop, the novel explores identity, displacement, and the complicated freedoms of a place that welcomes newcomers while quietly policing them. Known for her sharp, humane storytelling and keen attention to women’s inner lives, Hanan al-Shaykh blends wit and emotional clarity to illuminate the cultural borders people cross—and the ones that follow them home.
Available Editions
paperback
Anchor
Published Oct 8, 2002
288 pages
ISBN: 9780385721219
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Only in London by Hanan al-Shaykh.