Ascension to death
By: Mamdouh Azzam ; translated by Max Weiss
Contributors: Weiss, Max, 1977- translator
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781910376362
Subjects: Social conditions; Druze women; Fiction
Description: "In the conservative Druze region of southern Syria, Salma has been abandoned by her mother and fored into a brutal arranged marrige by her uncle. When she disgraces her family by falling in love with a boy from her village and escaping with him, Salma's relatives set out to ensure that her ordeal of imprisonment, torture and betrayal is only beginning. Dark, challenging, and inventive, Ascension to Death is one of Syria's most acclaimed novels."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "Originally published in Arabic in 1987, and adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995, it is the first work of Mamdouh Azzam to be published in English."--Page [4] of cover.