02670cam a22004335a 4500 ocn144558731 EG-ScBUE 20220227121256.0 061221r20052004ua f 000 1 eng d 9789774248634 (pbk.) 9774248635 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn144558731 (OCoLC)144558731 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA BAKER YDXCP AKC FDA BDX EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE eng ara a-le--- 892.736 BAR 22 Barakat, Hoda, author. Harith al-miyah. English The tiller of waters / Hoda Barakat ; translated by Marilyn Booth. Second printing. Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2005. v, 176 pages ; 20 cm. rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Modern Arabic literature Modern Arabic writing "This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. The desolate, almost surreal, urban landscape is enriched by the unfolding of the family sagas of Niqula Mitri and his beloved Shamsa, the Kurdish maid. Mitri reminisces about his Egyptian mother and his father who came back to settle in Beirut after a long stay in Egypt. Both Mitri and his father are textile merchants and see the world through the code of cloth, from the intimacy of linen, velvet, and silk to the most impersonal of synthetics. Shamsa in turn relates her story, the myriad adventures of her parents and grandparents who moved from Iraqi Kurdistan to Beirut. Haunting scenes of pastoral Kurds are juxtaposed against the sedentary decadence of metropolitan residents. Barakat weaves into her sophisticated narrative shreds of scientific discourse about herbal plants and textile crafts, customs and manners of Arabs, Armenians, and Kurds, mythological figures from ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Arabia, the theosophy of the African Dogons and the medieval Byzantines, and historical accounts of the Crusades in the Holy Land and the silk route to China."--Publisher description. Text in English ; translated from the Arabic. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz medal for literature. BUEsh Beirut (Lebanon) Fiction. BUEsh ARALIT HHUUEENN GGEN March2017 Reading book 34232 Booth, Marilyn, translator. 40527 ddc BB 24455 24427 0 0 ddc 0 0 AUC MAIN MAIN 2ND 2017-03-18 Donation 892.736 BAR 000041394 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2017-03-18 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 AUC MAIN MAIN 2ND 2017-03-20 Donation 892.736 BAR 000045872 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2017-03-20 BB