Fugitive Light (Middle East Literature in Translation)
Contributors: Issa J. Boullata (Translator); Michael Beard (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780815607496
Subjects: Modern fiction; Arabic (Language) Contemporary Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literature: Classics; Literary
Description: "Al-Àyshuni, a middle-aged painter of bohemian and political inclinations, has fallen in love with a younger woman, the alluring Ghaylana. But fate intervenes when she leaves him for new adventures in Spain. In time, al-Àyshuni befriends Ghaylana's daughter, the impressionable Fatima.

Even as al-Àyshuni struggles to recapture the "fugitive light" of his lost youth - as well as that of a younger generation of artists and activists - so Fatima discovers the twin fires of love and revolution, both of which are doomed to extinction."--BOOK JACKET.