The Dance of the Fig Tree

Three generations of women: Teta, the grandmother, Fadwa, the mother, and Emne, the daughter who captures the tenderness of her fore-bearers. The poems in this collection recall and restore a family lineage broken by war, death and exile.

Three generations of women: Téta, the grandmother, Fadwa, the mother, and Emné, the daughter who captures the tenderness of her fore-bearers. The poems in this collection recall and restore a family lineage broken by war, death and exile.

This translation of the 2021 Émile-Nelligan Prize-winning collection will attract readers interested in Middle Eastern literatures and those who value poetry written with the urgency of survival, memory, and longing. These short lyric poems weave a narrative that registers one of the primary concerns of the 21st century: migration.

• | Author: Emne Nasereddine
• | Publisher: The 87 Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781739393939
• | ISBN-10: 1739393937