Wild mulberries
By: by Iman Humaydan Younes
Publisher: Arabia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781906697273
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Families; Social conditions; Mothers and daughters; Silk industry; Fiction
Description: Wild Mulberries is the story of Sarah, the adolescent daughter of a Lebanese sheikh in the 1930s. Fleeing rural hardship in search of a mother she's never known. Younes provides a textured, personal window into a country on the brink of change, and a village that is holding on to its traditions despite Western influence and economic hardships.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.

Runner-up, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, 2009.