{"product_id":"9780008341060","title":"A Woman is No Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Rum, Etaf, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/12\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: HQ,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008341060\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePalestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the course of a week, the naive and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children - four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erooklyn, 2008. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture and honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world, and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35020454625433,"sku":"9780008341060","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780008341060_0a338fef-06d2-41f5-93d8-bf495420234f.jpg?v=1601392943","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9780008341060","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}