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Conversations with My Father, Adonis

Conversations with My Father, Adonis

Esber, Ninar
Scott Fox, Lorna

Hardcover

Series: French List

IslamFiction Anthologies

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ISBN10: 1905422903
ISBN13: 9781905422906
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Artist meets writer; young woman meets older man; daughter meets father. All these encounters are played out in the arresting conversations between the artist Ninar Esper (b. 1971) and the father she hardly knew, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (b. 1930). Esber passionately challenges Adonis on subjects ranging from fundamentalism to animal rights, from feminism to aesthetics; Adonis responds with amusement and judicious wisdom, not concealing the contradictions of a patriarchal humanist libertarian. On Esber's side, the poignancy of growing up without a father becomes a drama with Oedipal overtones. This intensely personal two-hander is at the same time representative of many contemporary displacements. Comparing their experiences of war, exile and cultural rootlessness, two individuals differently marked by Middle Eastern history seek a common ground in Paris. An intimate, uncensored, ultimately unresolved search for communication and forgiveness.

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