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The Bridges of Constantine

  • Author : Raphael Cohen, Raphael (TRN) Cohen, Ahlem Mosteghanemi
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
  • ISBN-13 : 9781408856482

About The Bridges of Constantine

From 'the most successful writer in the Arab world' (Forbes), the million-copybestseller The Bridges of Constantine is a sweeping, beautifully written love storyset in Paris between a former fighter in Algeria's wars of independence and thedaughter of a revolutionary hero.The Bridges of Constantine is a poignant fresco of Algeria over the last 50 years, asearing love story and a hymn to a lost city. Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerianwar of liberation has been in self-exile in Paris for two decades, disgusted by thecorruption that now riddles the country he once fought for. He has become a celebratedpainter, and at the opening of one of his exhibitions, Hayat, the daughter of his oldrevolutionary commander, unexpectedly reenters Khaled’s life. Hayat had been just achild when he last saw her, but she has now become a seductive young novelist.Khaled is consumed with passion for her, and she comes to embody the homeland andthe city he still grieves for – the city he paints over and over again in his canvases.Through Hayat, his past is breathed back into life and he at last begins to confront hisfeelings about Algeria. But for Hayat, as elusive as she is tender, the question of whatone should yearn for is not so simple, and the choices she makes will have devastatingconsequences for them both.The first novel in an awardwinning,bestselling trilogy that spans Algeria’s tumultuousrecent history, The Bridges of Constantine is a lyrical and heartrending love story aboutloss and remembrance, exile and belonging.Winner of the 1998 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, a prestigious awardfor contemporary Arabic literature founded in honour of the Nobel laureateAdapted into an Arabic language television seriesThe first of a bestselling trilogy by the Arab world's leading female novelistAhlem Mosteghanemi's novels have been adopted in the curricula of severaluniversities and high schools worldwide, and dozens of university theses andresearch papers have been based upon her work.

About the Author

Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author in the Arab world. She has more than 4 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in the top ten most influential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. The Arabic original of this title (Dhakirat al-Jasad) was awarded the 1998 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature (founded in honour of the Nobel laureate). It is the first in a trilogy of bestselling novels and has since been translated into several languages and been

Book Details

BindingPAPERBACK
ISBN-139781408856482
LanguageEnglish
No of Pages320
PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Publisher Date15 Dec 2015

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