Only in London
Published on 15. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4088-0192-5 (ISBN)
Description
As a flight from Dubai comes into London's Heathrow and hits turbulence, four people from different corners of the Arab world are thrown together: beautiful, lost Lamis, recently divorced from her wealthy Iraqi husband; Nicholas, an expert at Southeby's on Islamic daggers; louche and noisy Amira, a Moroccan who lives off immoral earnings and the transvestite Samir, with a monkey hidden in a basket. Landing safely they go their separate ways, but from then on they find their lives are intimately entwined. ONLY IN LONDON is a funny, tender and sexy novel that uncovers a unique world in the heart of a big city.
Reviews / Votes
'A fresh, amusing and surprising take on London, and on life' The Times 'An exquisitely comic tale of self-reinvention and survival' Guardian 'Devastatingly entertaining fiction ... teeming with ideas: memory and exile, language, desire and identity, and the search for order in the chaos of a metropolis' Literary Review 'A wittily sympathetic story about an England that tolerates but never quite accepts exotic foreigners' Sunday TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-0192-5 (9781408801925)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Hanan al- Shaykh
Only In London
Book
08/2002
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€9.90
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Person
Hanan al-Shaykh was born in 1945 and grew up in Beirut. She is the author of five novels including BEIRUT BLUES, three of which have been translated into English. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages and they are banned from many Arab countries because of their sexual explicitness. She lives in London with her husband and two children.