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Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Eddé's Kite defies categorization.Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late '80s, it is at once a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately tragic, relationship between Mali and Farid and the simultaneous decline of Egyptian-Lebanese society. Densely populated with myriad characters, Kite chronicles the casualties of social conventions, religious divisions and cultural clichés. The differences between East and West are central to the tension of Eddé's book and share the responsibility for an unavoidable impasse between the lovers. This fragmented narrativewritten in several voices that reflect the fragmented lives of those caught up in the madness of warcalls into question an entire way of living and thinking.In lyrical, elegant, original, and often startling prose, Eddé weaves together multiple strandsmeditating on the nature of language, investigating the concept of the novel, and powerfully depicting the

Kite

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    A Paperback / softback by Dominique Edde, Ros Schwartz

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      Publisher Seagull Books London Ltd
      Published 5 March 2019
      ISBN-13 9780857426369
      978-0857426369
      ISBN-10 0857426362

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      Book Synopsis
      Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Eddé's Kite defies categorization.Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late '80s, it is at once a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately tragic, relationship between Mali and Farid and the simultaneous decline of Egyptian-Lebanese society. Densely populated with myriad characters, Kite chronicles the casualties of social conventions, religious divisions and cultural clichés. The differences between East and West are central to the tension of Eddé's book and share the responsibility for an unavoidable impasse between the lovers. This fragmented narrativewritten in several voices that reflect the fragmented lives of those caught up in the madness of warcalls into question an entire way of living and thinking.In lyrical, elegant, original, and often startling prose, Eddé weaves together multiple strandsmeditating on the nature of language, investigating the concept of the novel, and powerfully depicting the

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