No Place Strange [Hardcover]

Diana Fitzgerald Bryden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 4, 2009

Lydia is a young Jewish Canadian woman trying to make sense of her father’s involvement with Palestinian terrorist Rafa Ahmed. Lydia meets and falls in love with Farid, a young Lebanese man whose cousin, Mouna, is a political radical dangerously obsessed with Rafa. Finally, Mariam, Rafa’s former professor and Mouna’s aunt, tries to maintain a normal life in Beirut’s devastating civil war. These four lives intersect in ways that promise to change them forever. Diana Fitzgerald Bryden has fashioned a stunning first novel of passion and obsession, love and hate, and families caught in the crossfire.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"No Place Strange is beautifully and tautly written, the work of a humane novelist wise to the subtleties of character that emerge even during periods of swift, shocking event. Diana Fitzgerald Bryden conveys both the political and the deeply personal aspects of tumultuous times with an emotional and intellectual resonance that remains entirely, tragically pertinent." --Joan Barfoot

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"[S]ingularly arresting. ...Bryden has written a rare contemporary book of poetry that maintains a narrative while each individual lyric is polished enough to be a tile in the gritty and glorious mosaic of the imagined city. The subtle music of these poems...retains the resonant appeal of song, while firmly grounded in the ecstatic attention of poetry. Bryden's sublime and seamless weave of three perspectives--social, medical, and mystical--on the work of a downtown hospital makes this book not so much a collection as a unified vision."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Key Porter Books (August 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1554701376
• ISBN-13: 978-1554701377
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,814,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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