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Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Political fiction.El Rashidi, Yasmine
Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRLukas, Michael David
Summary: "Joseph, a literature student at Berkeley, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUKSoueif, Ahdaf.
Summary: At the end of the twentieth century, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, journeys to Egypt to unravel the truth behond her ancestor, an English widow who, in 1901, fell in love with an Egyptian man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2000