The dust of promises
Mosteghanemi, Ahlem, 1953-2016
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Heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring, elusive novelist Hayat, the narrator of 'The Dust of Promises' finds himself in Paris, where he has come to receive an award for his photograph of a traumatised war-orphan, but he knows that no picture can ever fully capture the desolation and destruction he has witnessed in his Algerian homeland. When he stumbles into an art exhibition, he is struck by the power of the paintings and feels impelled to learn more about the artist - an Algerian exile whose painful longing for the country he has lost shines out of his work. The artist is none other than Khaled, the man who haunted the pages of Hayat's first novel, just as the narrator was inextricably entangled in her second. As the two men embark on a tentative friendship, a twist of fate brings Hayat herself to France, where the destinies of all of them will collide.
Main title:
The dust of promises / Ahlem Mosteghanemi ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts.
Author:
Mosteghanemi, Ahlem, 1953-, authorRoberts, Nancy N., translator
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9781408866269 (hbk)
Dewey class:
892.737
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishArabic
Added title:
BRN:
1826841