The Book of Khalid
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Melville House
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
12.06.2012
Illustriert von
Khalil Gibran
Verlag
Melville HouseSeitenzahl
336 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
2562 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781612190884
This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novel-inspiration for Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet-deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience.
Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-the century New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants-the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city-to often humiliating and comic result.
Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress, and religious unity and tolerance in the Arab world. A call that has him, accidentally, almost founding a new religion-and almost becoming its first martyr, when his ideas incite the faithful to riot.
Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature.
Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-the century New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants-the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city-to often humiliating and comic result.
Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress, and religious unity and tolerance in the Arab world. A call that has him, accidentally, almost founding a new religion-and almost becoming its first martyr, when his ideas incite the faithful to riot.
Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature.
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