
Solitaire
A Novel
Hassouna Mosbahi(Author)
Syracuse University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8156-1143-1 (ISBN)
Description
In Hassouna Mosbahi's engrossing and keenly observed novel, he takes readers deep into one day in the life of Yunus, a Tunisian intellectual. A professor of French language and Flaubert specialist, Yunis is recently retired and separated from his wife, as he leaves the city to settle in the Tunisian coastal city of Nabeul. Searching for solitude, he hopes to spend the remainder of his life among the books he loves. On the day of his sixtieth birthday, Yunus plunges into a delayed midlife crisis as he reflects on the major moments in his life, from taking up writing as a young man to his career as a university professor to his failed marriage. Yunus's identity crisis mirrors that of his Tunisian homeland with its tumultuous history of political and cultural upheaval. He meditates on the lives of his friends, drawing from his memory a colorful cast of characters whose experiences reflect the outsized influence of religion and tradition in their lives. Through the eyes of Yunus, Mosbahi's elegiac, literary novel explores life and death, love and writing, and the relationship between puritanism and extremism in the Arab world today.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-1143-1 (9780815611431)
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Persons
Hassouna Mosbahi is a Tunisian writer, literary critic, and journalist. He is the author of several novels and short story collections.
William M. Hutchins is professor of religious studies at Appalachian State University. His translations include Hassan Nasr's Return to Dar al-Basha and Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Modern.
William M. Hutchins is professor of religious studies at Appalachian State University. His translations include Hassan Nasr's Return to Dar al-Basha and Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Modern.