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Saraya, the Ogre's Daughter: A Palestinian Fairy Tale.(Brief article)(Book review)
Saraya, the Ogre's Daughter: A Palestinian Fairy Tale EMILE HABIBY, TRANS. FROM THE ARABIC BY PETER THEROUX. Ibis Editions, $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-965-90124-5-9
The final novel from Habiby (1921-1996), written in 1990, is an impressionistic semiautobiography in which an aging writer and political activist mulls over a half-century of conflict and disappointment, while still summoning moments of nostalgia and tender humor. The book emerges as a patchwork of memories and an array of digressive references-from philosopher Ibn Tufayl to Wuthering Heights to Albert Einstein, and above all to the fairy-tale heroine Saraya, a girl …
