I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops
Description
A luminous collection of seventeen short stories, spanning Lebanon, the wider Middle East, Africa, and finally London, follows women navigating love, survival, and selfhood amid shifting cultural pressures. With stylistic range and sharp emotional intelligence, these tales illuminate the ambiguous power dynamics between men and women—and between communities shaped by different histories, languages, and expectations. Across intimate moments and quietly destabilizing encounters, the book explores desire, agency, and the costs of silence, revealing how identity can be both claimed and contested. Hanan al-Shaykh’s acclaimed, courageous storytelling—often compared to the incisive social vision of writers like Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble—turns everyday lives into mirrors of larger political and personal truths.
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paperback
Anchor
Published Apr 3, 2013
289 pages
ISBN: 9780307766625
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops by Hanan al-Shaykh.