
2023
Hardcover
101-200 Pages
Contemporary Fiction Novels Books
Hussein Barghouthi
9781803090832
Literature & Fiction
Seagull Books
English
India
Name : The Blue Light
Author : Hussein Barghouthi
Book Format : Hardcover
Genre : Literature & Fiction
ISBN : 9781803090832
Language : English
Pages : 101-200 Pages
Publish Year : 2023
Publisher : Seagull Books
Sub Genre : Contemporary Fiction Novels Books
Towards the end of the twentieth century a pair of Palestinian eyes encounter American life in Seattle. Hussein Bargouthi tells his story with Bari, a Turkish American Sufi, during Bargouthi’s years as a graduate student at the University of Washington. The Blue Light has several beginnings and many returns. In Beirut’s traumatic sea. In musings on colour and identity. On Scientology. Palestine and Amerindians. Buddhist paths and Rajneesh disciples. Schizophrenia. Military rule and colonial insanity. Drug addicts. Magical thinking on elevators and sacred rock. On queer theory and mysticism. The Blue Light propagates the waves of remembrance that merge the memoir with fiction, the hallowed with the profane. Written and lived between Arabic and English, this book is a collection of stories that refuse their borders. It is a unique book whose depth is as clear as its surface. It will tempt you to dismiss it as it compels you to devour it for illumination. You will encounter Gogol and Kanafani, Gibran and Goethe. You will laugh and cry, experience awe and serenity. A meditation on and liberation from madness, The Blue Light is a brilliant inimitable literary achievement.
Country of Origin : India
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