Learning English: A Novel
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Rachid al-Daif
Born in Lebanon in 1945, Rachid al-Daif is the acclaimed author of eleven novels and three volumes of poetry. Of the novels, three have been translated into English: Dear Mr. Kawabata, This Side of Innocence, and Passage to Dusk. Paula Haydar is professor of Arabic at the University of Arkansas and the translator of al-Daif’s This Side of Innocence and Elias Khoury’s The Kingdom of Strangers. Her most recent project is a translation of Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh’s A Hot Spring. Adnan Haydar is professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Arkansas. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited six books, including Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to International Recognition. He has published many translations from Arabic, including Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s celebrated The Ship.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Narrator Rachid is a middle aged university professor in Beirut. He's living a modern life with a 'friends with benefits' girlfriend, all the latest technology - and he's even started English lessons.After the first page - where he learns by chance in a cafe that his father has been killed back home in a 'blood feud' - the whole story takes place in his head.Rachid ponders over why no one's informed him of the death. Is his life in danger from the feud? Do they expect him to avenge his father? And then he meanders back to recollections and suppositions about his dysfunctional family: his resentful mother (might she have done it?); her best friend who later married into the family (might she have divulged his mother's confidences?); his father's adultery; his uncles...It took a determined effort to finish it. No real conclusion. Not recommended.