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Black Suits You So Well
''Black Suits You so Well'' is a novel by Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi, published in 2012 by Dar Nofal. Summary The novel revolves around a fifty-year-old Lebanese millionaire who fell in love with an Algerian singer by the name of Hala El-Wafi, at the age of twenty-seven. Talal, who has struggled to enrich his cultural crop in music, art and poetry, begins to develop plan after plan to entrap this beautiful woman who wears black to mourn the killing of her father and brother during the turmoil in Algeria at the beginning of this century. Quotes * “Only a person who has lost love deserves to sing it...Great art is like great love that is nourished by deprivation.” * “Mourning is not in what we wear, but in what we see. It is in our view of things. The eyes of our heart can be in mourning..No one knows.” * “Pride is to say things in the text of a word, not to repeat it. Not to insist that the other never see you naked. To protect your mystery as you protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Ahlem Mosteghanemi ( ar, أحلام مستغانمي), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called "''probably the world's best-known Arabophone woman novelist''". She was the first Algerian woman to publish fiction in Arabic. Biography Birth in exile and return to Algeria Ahlem was born in Tunis, Tunisia. She is the daughter of a militant political activist who was forced into exile during the Algerian liberation war. In the wake of independence, her family moved back to Algeria, where her father, an intellectual and a humanitarian, occupied high positions in the first Algerian government. He launched a literacy campaign all over the territory and supervised the distribution of agricultural land to the poorest. Early poetry In the 70s, following the assassination attempt during the Boumediene coup d’état, and the consequent hospitalization of her father, who was also targeted, Ahlem, as the eldest sibling, took up the respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
