Daughters of the Same Secret by Al-Sayegh, Haneen

Daughters of the Same Secret (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623715397)

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Daughters of the Same Secret by Al-Sayegh, Haneen

Daughters of the Same Secret

$18.95
Daughters of the Same Secret by Al-Sayegh, Haneen

Daughters of the Same Secret

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Constrained by the confines of her patriarchal, religiously-observant Druze community, Amal dreams of a life outside of her conservative, isolated village in Mount Lebanon, where many of life's big questions remain ignored and unanswered.

Amal's father, a shaykh and blacksmith, wields the hammer of his authority over the family to shape the future of his four daughters according to his understanding of appropriate behavior for women. Her parents' conservative beliefs stand in the way of her deepest desire--to pursue higher education and study at the American University in Beirut.

To achieve her goal of getting an education, Amal decides to strike a deal with a local, wealthy Druze businessman with a captivating smile. She bargains that Salem will help to secure her freedom. Will Salem keep his promise? Or will Amal face a new struggle to achieve her dream?

In her touching and poetic debut novel, Haneen Al-Sayegh paints a vivid picture of the little-known, isolated religious Druze community of Mount Lebanon. Daughters of the Same Secret delves deeply into the human cost of the turmoil faced by women searching for their own path in a conservative society.

This novel is a literary contribution to the struggle for freedom in its broadest sense. It is about motherhood--as both a predicament and an
opportunity--and about love that transcends geographical, religious, and cultural boundaries.

Author: Haneen Al-Sayegh
ISBN-10: 1623715393
ISBN-13: 9781623715397
Publisher: Interlink Books
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2026
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
By Haneen Al-Sayegh
By Haneen Al-Sayegh
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Haneen Al-Sayegh is an award-winning Lebanese poet and novelist born in 1986 in Mount Lebanon. She studied English Literature at the American University of Beirut and works as a lecturer and translator. She has published three poetry books and was awarded the prestigious Naji Naaman Literary Award. Her debut novel was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. She lives in Beirut and Berlin.

Michelle Hartman is a literary translator and professor of Arabic literature at McGill University. She has translated more than a dozen novels from Arabic to English including three other novels by Iman Humaydan, The Weight of Paradise, Other Lives, and Wild Mulberries. Her latest translation is A Long Walk from Gaza (Interlink, 2024). She has also written on Lebanese women and the Civil War in two co-authored volumes (with Malek Abisaab), Women's War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women's Labor and the Creative Arts (Syracuse UP, 2022) and What the War Left Behind: Women's Stories of Resistance and Struggle in Lebanon (Syracuse UP, 2024).

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