Selected Poems of Andree Chedid (Studies in French Literature) (English, French and French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Chedid, Andrée

Poetry

Edwin Mellen Pr

From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. But when she shakes off the torpor of sleep, the sleep of avoidance, she awakens to action with the explosive energy of one who has been reborn.

From Sleep Unbound

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Swallow Pr

Set in Paris and war-torn Lebanon in the 1980s, The Multiple Child is a timeless tale in a spare yet elegant style by a powerful writer admired worldwide. The title character, Omar-Jo, a child of war and of peace, has the power and vision of Oskar of The Tin Drum and the gentle wisdom of The Little Prince. After Omar-Jo loses his parents and one of his arms in a bomb blast in Lebanon, his grandfather sends the boy to live with relatives in Paris. There he meets Maxime, the owner of a carousel that has fallen into disrepair. The child breathes new life into the carousel - a character in its own right - as well as into its owner and patrons. Omar-Jo plays the part of the wise clown: "all the zanies, all the fools, all the 'grasiosos,' all the minstrels, the itinerant players, the white-faced clowns, the Monsieur Loyals, the Augustes, of times past and present, dwelt in his body." In this novel, Chedid illuminates the essence of conflict and redemption.

The Multiple Child

Mercury House

The Sixth Day (Serpent's Tail Book)

Contemporary

Serpent's Tail

The first major collection of poetry published in English by the noted French/Egyptian novelist and poet, Andrée Chedid.

Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry

Green Integer

L'Enfant multiple

Children's Books

FLAM JEUNESSE

Le Message

Genre Fiction

Flammarion

Le sixième jour

Le sommeil délivre

Textes pour un poème: 1949-1970

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