Translator's Note
1. Haifa Assassinated My Braid
2. I'll Be There
3. They Fell Like Stars From the Sky
4. Pink Dress
5. Ali
6. Serpent
7. Soulless Cities
8. "All the Love I've Known"
9. Umm Kulthum's Intercessor
10. A Funny Red Rose
11. Bride
12. W - h - o - r - e
13. The Door to the Body
14. Barbed Question
15. Three Paintings
16. The Day My Donkey Died
17. God Bless Toun Field!
18. Queens of Darkness
Acknowledgements
Products specifications
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Author
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Sheikha Helawy |
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Pub Date
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26/09/2023 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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128 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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892.737 |
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GBPPrice
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9.99 |
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Availability
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Available |
They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories is a collection of eighteen short stories celebrating the courage, resilience, tragedies and triumphs of Bedouin Palestinian women and girls.
From a woman whose tattoo arouses the alarm of sexual taboos to the young girls whose curiosities of womanhood spark endearment, and from the tragic outcome of a husband consumed by jealousy of his wife's teenage love to the ecstatic love of an elderly woman for the game of football, these stories offer mesmerising portraits of life on the margins.
Featuring beautiful illustrations throughout, They Fell Like Stars from the Sky and Other Stories is a powerful ode to the Bedouin women and girls of Palestine and their spirit for every form of freedom.
