Darina Al Joundi

The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Vassallo, Helen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On the evening of her father's funeral, while his family recites suras from the Koran, Noun interrupts the ceremony. Faithful to the memory of her father, a writer and journalist, a freedom fighter, she decides to put an end to this memorial and to make sure that her father's last wishes are respected: to be buried to a jazz tune. Locked up with the dead body, Noun looks back on her experience in Lebanon. She reminisces about the war, the straitjacket of religion, the weight of prejudice and her struggle against an all-powerful male society that forbids women to speak.

Le Jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter (The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing) was an instant sensation when it was first performed as a one-woman play at the Avignon festival in July 2007: it sold out at every performance and resulted in multiple runs in Paris and throughout France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Naked Eye Publishing ebooks
• Seitenzahl: 60
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910981238
• Artikelnr.: 64214021

Autorenporträt

Darina Al Joundi is a critically acclaimed actor and writer of Lebanese-Syrian origin. The daughter of notorious Syrian journalist, freedom fighter, political activist and exile Assim Al Joundi, Darina Al Joundi is known throughout the Arab world for her television and film roles, and has also played occasional roles in popular English-language series such as Homeland and Tyrants. She has published two novels and two plays, and is currently working on a film adaptation of her second novel.