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While I was reading Hanan Al Shaykh’s new book, The Locust and the Bird, my regret as an author was not to have known Kamila, Hanan’s mother, the extravagant narrator of this book. What a woman! What a storyteller! She reminds me of my beloved grandmother (who is in many of my books), and many other women of her generation that I knew, who were manipulative in order to survive, who lied in order to establish the truth, and, most of all, so full of life and passion. When I finished the book I had one major thought: this book needs to be made into a movie, but this is the kind of story one needs to be a real Lebanese in order to turn it into a movie. That was my other regret as a movie maker. But most of all I felt extremely lucky to spend time with someone so intelligent, full of humor and love. --Marjane Satrapi
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Amazon Exclusive: Hanan al-Shaykh on The Locust and the BirdThough I never blamed her for leaving me at the age of 6, and for not being interested in me, nonetheless, I found myself building a wall between us. Throughout the years she never stopped explaining to me the reason for leaving my father to marry her lover. When I eventually listened to her story I found myself, as a novelist, face to face with a treasure wrapped in a tissue paper. --Hanan Al-Shaykh
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another manand was thus forced to choose between her children and her lover. As the narrative unfolds through the yearsfrom the bazaars, cinemas and apartments of 1930s Beirut to its war-torn streets decades laterwe follow this passionate woman as she survives the tragedies and celebrates the triumphs of a life lived to the very fullest. Originally published: London: Bloomsbury Pub., 2009. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780307472311