{"product_id":"here-there-was-once-a-country-field-translation-series-9780932440891","title":"Here There Was Once a Country Field Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLebanese writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From the embers of loss and death, from childhood and the moon, from villages and cemeteries and forests, geography and God, Khoury-Ghata has created a dazzling, soaring, thrilling imagination . . . \u003ci\u003eHere There Was Once a Country\u003c\/i\u003e is to poetry what \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e is to fiction. Here is another world, another language, another dimension to reality, which will never again be the same.” -- Alicia Ostriker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Preface • Widow • The Dead Man’s Monologue • The Seven Honeysuckle Sprigs of Wisdom • Early Childhood","brand":"Oberlin College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406530453847,"sku":"9780932440891","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/here-there-was-once-a-country-field-translation-series-9780932440891","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}