Writing Love
By: Khalil Sweileh ; translated by Alexa Firat
Contributors: Firat, Alexa
Series: Modern Arabic literature
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cairo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9789774165351
Subjects: Novelists; Fiction
Work titles: Warrāq al-ḥubb
Description: How to write a novel? Where to find inspiration? What is it that novels do for us? What is the nature of love? And most importantly, how and where to find it? Embarking on a literary and romantic journey, an aspiring novelist guides the reader through the streets of Damascus to bookstores, libraries, historical landmarks, cafés, and neighborhoods that carry the traces of history and the possibilities of the future. Mining the rich and divergent histories, narratives, texts, memories, and people that occupy the narrator's mind and everyday life, Writing Love casts a critical eye on contemporary society and offers a playful testament to the tangential nature of writing and the many ways to fall in love. -- Book Description.
Notes: "A Syrian novel"--Cover.