Description
In a Lebanon she can no longer fully inhabit, Meelya finds refuge in dreams—an inner world where what she cannot explain or endure becomes bearable. After leaving home to live in Nazareth with her Palestinian husband, Mansour, her growing “absence” strains their life, and a death in the family forces them into Jaffa, a place shadowed by early tensions between Jewish settlers and displaced Palestinians. As their son’s birth approaches, Meelya’s retreat deepens, and over three traumatic nights past, present, and future fold into one another in visions that blur the boundary between the spiritual and the real. With Elias Khoury’s lyrical, psychologically charged storytelling, the novel explores memory, displacement, love under pressure, and the ways collective conflict can fracture private lives—building toward a symbolic resolution that echoes the enduring turmoil of the region.
Available Editions
paperback
Hachette UK
Published May 26, 2011
361 pages
ISBN: 9780857385833
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First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for As Though She Were Sleeping by Elias Khoury.