Image, the Icon,

Ṣahar Khalīfah

Original title: The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant

Translated by Aida Bamia earliest edition we have, 2007 Interlink, 2007 paperback 264 pages

Interlink world fiction

"This award-winning novel is at once a recasting of the story of the Holy Family, an ode to Arab Jerusalem, and a call for liberation, not just of a nation but for the individual women and men who inhabit it." "After abandoning his beloved Mariam when she becomes pregnant, and escaping her brothers' bullets, Ibrahim abandons his own ideals and dreams of becoming a novelist, opting instead to follow his father's wishe...

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Aida Bamia 1 printing we hold · 2007 · Interlink

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The Image, the Icon, and the Covenant paperback · 2007 · Interlink · 264 pages · 9781566566995
Image, the Icon, edition · 2007 · American University in Cairo Press · 183 pages · 9789774160752

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