Noor Naga

Washes, Prays

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Produktbeschreibung

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award winner Noor Naga's bracing debut, a novel-in-verse about a young Muslim woman's romantic relationship with a married man and her ensuing crisis of faith. Coocoo is new to Toronto. After years of bargaining with God to end her loneliness and receiving no answer, her faith is already worn threadbare when she meets her mirror-image; Muhammad is a professor and father of two. He's also married. Coocoo spirals and feels powerless to stop the transformation of her love into something at first desperate and obsessive, then finally cringing and animal, utterly without grace. Her best friend, Nouf, remains by her side no matter what. Together they reckon with the growing contradictions of Coocoo's life: being a practicing Muslim woman, still clinging to five daily prayers, even as she gives her body to a man who cannot keep it. This wondrous--often funny and always fast-paced--verse-novel explores love and belonging and asks the questions: how long can a homeless love survive on the street?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 143mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 112g
• ISBN-13: 9780771005893
• ISBN-10: 077100589X
• Artikelnr.: 57118795

Autorenporträt

NOOR NAGA is an Alexandrian writer who was born in Philadelphia, raised in Dubai, studied in Toronto, and now lives in Alexandria. She is the winner of the 2017 Bronwen Wallace Award, the 2019 Disquiet Fiction Prize, and the 2019 Graywolf Press Africa Prize. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, The Walrus, The Common, The Sultan's Seal, POETRY, and more. Her debut novel, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in April 2022.