- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: AuthorHouse (10 April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0759692319
- ISBN-13: 978-0759692312
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,523,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Yasseen, a Westerner of Egyptian descent, 'goes home' after the Suez Crisis to an Egypt he doesn't know. He is soon in as much emotional turmoil as he was in the Britain he left, but he feels accepted and stays
About the Author
Yasseen was born in Jamaica, the product of an Egyptian-West Indian marriage. He completed his schooling in Britain and went on to university there. He has spent his working life in radio, TV and newspaper journalism, in the Middle East - in Egypt, Oman and Dubai. He is married and has children and grandchildren. He loves cooking, gardening, swimming, poetry and listening to Cuban, Spanish and Arabic music. He hates politics. He is currently working in a newspaper and is struggling to find time to write a novel and a sequel to 'Emigrating Home'.
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Conflicting Identities,
By Martin Rose (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Emigrating Home (Paperback)
Emigrating Home is a powerful book, deeply serious under a finely constructed and often very funny veneer of anecdote and memory. It deals with the tangle of identities that a young man finds himself in in the early 1950s as he wrestles with the implications of a family which brings together Egypt and Jamaica, and a culture that mixes the serious and devoted Englishness of the Caribbean with the distant magnetism of the Near East. Educated first in Jamaica and then at English public school and university, the author is always shrewd and always affectionate in his view of both his countries. The unstable equilibrium is upset by the Suez War and the possibility of the author's being drafted into the British army to invade his father's - his third - country. The consequences are earth-shaking. With his sense of self and of belonging changing in his hands, the author travels for the first time to Egypt, to his father's family and a culture and a language of which he knows little or nothing. This is the "emigrating home" of the title, and once again he provides us with a remarkable take on Egypt in the 1950s, sensitive and puzzled. He manages to retain the freshness of perception that - half a century later - still offers striking cameos on cultural contrasts large and small - like the complete inability of an Englishman to walk like an Egyptian. There is much more, and every page a pleasure to savour more than once.Read this book: at a time when identities are in flux everywhere in the world, Yaseen's journey has a great deal to tell us about crossing cultural boundaries with grace, humour, tolerance and humanity. We must hope that there is more to come from this splendid writer.
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