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Fugitive Light

Fugitive Light

Berrada, Muhamed
Boullata, Issa

Hardcover

Series: Middle East Literature in Translation

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815607490
ISBN13: 9780815607496
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2002
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.84 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

Cosmopolitan Tangier, heart and so ul of Morocco, sets the stage for this smoldering novel of dreams and lovers, both before and after the nation's independence.

Al 'Ayshuni, a middle-aged painter of bohemian and political inclinations has fa ll en in love with a younger woman, the alluring Ghaylana. But fate intervenes when she leaves him for new adventures in Spain . Now, Al 'Ayshuni befriends Ghaylana's daughter, the impressionable Fatima. Even as Al 'Ayshuni struggles to recapture the fugitive light of his lost youth--as well as that of a younger generation of artists and activists--so Fatima discovers the twin fires of love and revolution, both of which are doomed to extinction.

Written with the simplicity of a parable and imbued with a viscera l visual sense, this remarkable book explores the lives of three people whose hopes and passions are ruled-and ultimately shattered- by laws both visible and unseen. Fugitive Light explores the profound dilemma of Moroccan artists torn between old French ties and youthful anti-colonialism. Struggling to balance two cultures, they exist in a landscape haunted by inner conflict and governed at once by abandon and conformity.

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