A Woman Is No Man

A Woman Is No Man

Softcover
4.128

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A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut ¿ BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year ¿ A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year ¿ A Real Simple Best Book of the Year ¿ A PopSugar Best Book of the Year ¿ A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ¿ A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March ¿ A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer ¿ A USA Today Best Book of the Week ¿ A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel ¿ A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month ¿ A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put Down Last Month ¿ A New Arab Best Books by Arab Authors ¿ An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 ¿ A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of the Year"Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf Rum's debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice." -Refinery 29The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick telling the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women in a gripping family saga, each struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community."Where I come from, we've learned to silence ourselves. We've been taught that silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of-dangerous, the ultimate shame."Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children-four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.Brooklyn, 2008. In a poignant coming of age story, eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya can't help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths and long-buried family secrets-knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Contemporary
Format
Softcover
Pages
352
Price
18.00 €

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— 4.25 ⭑ I don’t know who I am angry with—God, or Adam, or the woman I’ve become. this is a book that you can't stop thinking about, no matter how long it's been since you read it. i can't describe how angry this made me and how many tears i shed. don't get me wrong, this book was amazing and i would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a genuine and heartbreaking novel.

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Ein grossartiges Buch. Grossartig, nicht, weil es ein Wohlfühlbuch ist. Grossartig, weil es das eben nicht ist. Grossartig, weil es geschrieben wurde. Grossartig, weil es das Schweigen bricht. Grossartig, weil Etaf Rum den Mut hatte, ihr Projekt durchzuziehen. Grossartig auf allen Seiten. Fliessend geschrieben, berührend, tiefgründig, aber ohne jegliches Pathos berichtet Rum von der Stellung der arabischen Frau. Ob nun in Palästina oder in New York. Denn was sollte sich dort schon ändern? Es war schon immer so, und wird auch immer so bleiben. Etaf Rum gräbt tief. Sucht Erklärungen, Gründe, sieht sich ihre Charaktere genau an. Was treibt sie an? Wieso handeln sie so, wie sie es tun? Was denken sie wirklich? So entsteht ein detailliertes Bild, abseits von gut-böse, schwarz-weiss. Denn Kultur ist nicht einfach gut oder schlecht. Sie hat ihre Gründe, bietet Schutz und Halt; oder eben Wände und Mauern. Wichtig ist, wie wir damit umgehen. Die Autorin zeigt durch verschiedene Figuren verschiedene Wege, wie dies geschehen kann. Dabei urteilt sie nicht. Wie soll sie auch? Zwar als Roman geschrieben, basiert vieles doch auf autobiographischen Erfahrungen. Wahrscheinlich ist das Buch genau deshalb so lebendig und intensiv. So unerschütterlich. "A Woman Is No Man" hat sich in mein Gedächtnis gebohrt, in meine Seele. Mein Verständnis, mein Mitgefühl vertieft. Um nochmal auf den Anfang zurückzukommen: eine grossartige Lektüre.

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Isra taught Deya well imo

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How is one supposed to say it's a good book when the story broke me into a zillion pieces, made me a mess! I am not sure if I should recommend this book for people to read and break their hearts too and let them miss out on a brilliant book like this or be silent?

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