. This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump ...
... her family , and when she woke up , she had the lingering sensation that she was still trapped in that faraway place . Ahmad laughed and assured her that at this very moment she was with him in their bedroom . After praying in the ...
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores ...
... a stranger in her own city , a nocturnal flaneuse who paces the streets once the walls of her apartment become constraining . The solitary hero of the classic film noir becomes in this exquisite short the female loner , whose selfhood ...
It's as much a novel of feelings as ideas, and this is what makes it a compelling read' Jake Arnott, Guardian The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a ...
... stranger” was the very text of the narrative. In much the same way, the character of Delia in L'amore molesto, a stranger in her own city, is also an author-in-the-text. Like Katherine, she endlessly travels the city in a tour of the ...
... stranger.1 Oedipus is a stranger in Colonus. The same is true of many other Greek tragedies: Orestes is a refu- gee, Electra is a stranger in her own city, Iphigenia is a stranger both in Aulis and Tauris, Prometheus is an outcast ...
... a stranger in her own city. In Paris the title of duke ranks all others, even that of prince; though, in heraldic theory, free of all sophism, titles signify nothing; there is absolute equality among gentlemen. This fine equality was ...
... a stranger in her own city . In Paris the title of duke ranks all others , even that of prince ; though , in heraldic theory , free of all sophism , titles signify nothing ; there is absolute equality among gentlemen . This fine ...
... a stranger in her own city , Iphigenia is a stranger both in Aulis and in Tauris , Prometheus is an outcast ... stranger's lot . Shakespeare - perhaps without being aware of it— stands here in the Greek tradition . But he also ...