Four Cities by Hala Alyan
" Following her mesmerizing debut collection Atrium, Hala Alyan offers a sustaining and luminous meditation on love and war in Four Cities. Baghdad, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Detroit and Paris are just names on maps, 'for when maps fold and countries vanish... it is just you and the dust you carry on your skin.' These gritty, volatile communities dissolve into dreamscapes, redolent with lemons, dazzled with snow, awake to conversation and kisses. The sky is always open for possibilities: fireworks, moonlight, the call to prayer, dandelions parachuting through the air. What a splendid majestic if troubled world we find ourselves in love in."-- D.A. Powell, author of Chronic and Cocktails
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has received widespread acclaim around the world. Her poetry collection ATRIUM (Three Rooms Press, 2013) won the 2013 Arab American Book Award in Poetry, and her collection HIJRA (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015) was named a winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. SALT HOUSES (2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) won the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction, the 2018 Arab-American Novel Award for Fiction, and NPR, NYLON, and Kirkus Reviews named it Best Book of the Year. She currently resides in Brooklyn as a Lannan fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781625579393 |
| ISBN 10 | 162557939X |
| Title | Four Cities |
| Author | Hala Alyan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Black Lawrence Press |
| Year published | 2015-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 104 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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