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      A House At The Edge Of Tears

      Venus Khoury-Ghata

      In this harrowing and mesmerizing novel, celebrated novelist and poet, Khoury-Ghata, presents the disintegration of a family and a country–both ruled by a fury fueled by fear.

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      The Water People

      Venus Khoury-Ghata

      Venus Khoury-Ghata is an outstanding figure in contemporary literature, with a prolific output in both poetry and prose. Her mesmeric sequences plunge us into a semi-surreal world where humans and…

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      The Fiancee Rode In on a Donkey

      Venus Khoury-ghata, Teresa Lavender Fagan

      A lyrical novel with a poetic narrative about an overlooked individual in Arab African history.

      For two days the rabbi rides on a donkey to find the ideal fiancee. Legs…

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      She Says

      Venus Khoury-Ghata

      Translated by celebrated American poet Marilyn Hacker, She Says explores the mythic and confessional attractions and repulsions of the French and Arabic imaginations with poems that open like a suitcase…

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      Where Are the Trees Going?

      Venus Khoury-Ghata

      Where Are the Trees Going? brings together some of the latest work of the poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata in a manner that showcases her central concerns in a wholly…

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      Here There Was Once a Country

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      Lebanese writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France’s major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry’s communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic…

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      The Postman of Abruzzo

      Venus Khoury-ghata, Teresa Lavender Fagan

      A lyrical novel concerning belonging, foreignness, and ethnicity.

      Following the path of her late geneticist husband, Laure arrives in the town of Malaterra in the harsh mountains of Abruzzo in…

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      The Last Days of Mandelstam

      Venus Khoury-Ghata

      Translation of: Derniers jours de Mandelstam.

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      Marina Tsvetaeva - To Die in Yelabuga

      Venus Khoury-ghata,Teresa Lavender Fagan

      A biographic novel that captures the tempestuous and moving life of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

      The life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She was…

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      Nettles: Poems

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      The new collection by the Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award it could only have been elsewhere the…

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      Earth and Mind: Dreaming, Writing, Being: Nine Contemporary French Poets - Yves Bonnefoy, Jacqueline Risset, Salah Stetie, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Andre Velter, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Jean-Claude Pinson, Jacques Dupin

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      In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines very recent work by nine major French and Francophone writers : Bonnefoy, Risset, Stetie, Khoury-Ghata, Ben Jelloun, Velter, Bancquart…

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      The Parley Tree: An Anthology of Poets from French-Speaking Africa and the Arab World

      Tahir Bekri,Tanella Boni,Paul Dakeyo,Mohammed Dib,Habib Tengour

      The poets anthologized here - from North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and the Arab World - have long wished to escape from artificial pigeon-holing and rather to be associated with…

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