Her first Palestinian : and other stories / Saeed Teebi.

By:

Teebi, Saeed [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Toronto : Astoria, 2022Description: 256 pages ; 18 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781487010874
1487010877

Subject(s):

Canadian fiction -- 21st century

Genre/Form:

Short stories.

DDC classification:

C813/.6 23

Other classification:

cci1icc

Available additional physical forms:

Issued also in electronic format.

Summary: "Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight."-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Fiction	Fiction	FIC Teebi (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Amazing Reads 2023		23577

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"Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler. A lonely widower travels to Russia in search of a movie starlet he met in his youth in historical Jaffa. A refugee who escaped violent circumstances rebels against the kindness of his sponsor. These taut and compelling stories engage the immigrant experience and reflect the Palestinian diaspora with grace and insight."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic format.

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