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Evil Eye - Etaf Rum

Evil Eye

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2023
HQ (Verlag)
978-0-00-865418-4 (ISBN)
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‘Filled with completely relatable yearning and achingly beautifully written, Evil Eye is a wonderful, moving and absorbing story of identity and belonging and learning to love yourself. I thought it was excellent’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A complicated mother-daughter drama that looks at the lasting effects of intergenerational trauma and what it takes to break the cycle of abuse’ Time magazine, ‘The Most Anticipated Books of the Year’


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The powerful and poignant new novel from the author of the much-loved A Woman is No Man.



Raised in a conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur. Now, she has a good job at the local college, and balances that with raising her two daughters and taking care of their home. Yara knows that her life is more rewarding than her mother’s – so why doesn’t it feel like enough?


After Yara responds to a colleague’s racist provocation, she is put on probation at work and must attend mandatory counselling. Her mother blames a family curse for Yara’s troubles, and while Yara doesn’t believe in superstitions, she still finds herself growing increasingly uneasy about falling victim to the same mistakes as her mother.


Yara’s carefully constructed world begins to implode and suddenly she must face up to the difficulties of her childhood, not fully realising how that will impact not just her own future, but that of her daughters too.


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Praise for Etaf Rum:



‘Wise, expansive, and deeply compassionate . . . This fierce story explores the notion of women’s freedom and of what becomes of identity when gender roles, family and cultural traditions are challenged and rewritten‘ Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Birds of Paradise


‘A moving meditation on motherhood . . . stunning’ Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics


‘A moving look at the complexities of identity, marriage and redemption’ Melissa Rivero, author of The Affairs of the Falcóns


‘A love letter to storytelling’ New York Times


‘Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns . . . a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice’ Refinery 29

The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Etaf Rum was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She has a Masters of Arts in American and British Literature as well as undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and English Composition and taught undergraduate courses in North Carolina, where she lives with her two children. Etaf also runs the Instagram account @booksandbeans and is also a Book of the Month Club Ambassador, showcasing her favourite selections each month. Her debut novel, A Woman is No Man, was a New York Times bestseller and was published to wide critical acclaim. Evil Eye is her second novel..

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Märchen / Sagen
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-00-865418-2 / 0008654182
ISBN-13 978-0-00-865418-4 / 9780008654184
Zustand Neuware
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