The Blue Light

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