The Time between Places : Stories That Weave In and Out of Egypt and America.
Title:
The Time between Places : Stories That Weave In and Out of Egypt and America.
Author:
Kaldas, Pauline.
ISBN:
9781610754194
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Dream -- I. Chance Departures -- Phone Call One -- A Game of Chance -- Cumin and Coriander -- The Silver Platter -- An Encounter -- Backgammon -- II. Early Arrival -- Phone Call Two -- The Top -- The First Lesson -- Playground -- Lentils -- Airport -- III. Dreams Of Return -- Phone Call Three -- A Conversation -- The Dancer -- Aisle Three -- Oregano -- He Had Dreamed of Returning -- IV. The Silence Of Memory -- Phone Call Four -- Sketches -- Suitors -- The Couple -- Bluebird -- Silences -- Phone Call Five.
Abstract:
Pauline Kaldas was born in Egypt and immigrated to the United States in 1992. She is an associate professor of English at Hollins University and the author of Letters from Cairo; a poetry collection, Egyptian Compass; and co-editor, with Khaled Mattawa, of Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction, now in its second edition, which won the 2005 Silver Award in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year "Anthology" category. Stories from The Time between Places have appeared in a variety of journals and books, including Callaloo, Mizna, and Ripe Guava.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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