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Just Like a River.(Book Review)
By Muhammad Kamil Al Khatib translated by Michelle Hartman and Maher Barakat published by Arris Books
ISBN 1 84437 003 8 price 6.99 [pounds sterling] paperback
Originally published in 1984, Just Like a River (Hakadha nahar) is the first novel by the prominent Syrian intellectual Muhammad Kamil Al Khatib.
Just Like a River, one of the most influential works in modern Arab fiction, is a fascinating study of Syrian life in the 1980s. With a narrative that flows from voice to voice, Al Khatib paints concise and vivid portraits of characters linked by blood and friendship, but estranged by the competing claims of tradition and modernity. They range from an ageing officer in the Syrian army facing ...
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