- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: YouWriteOn.com (1 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849234094
- ISBN-13: 978-1849234092
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Lena, a 30 year-old PhD student of working class roots, addicted to dope and unsuitable men, feels an exile amongst her own people, in academia as well as the Catholic Church.
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The city of the heroine of the novel is Vienna, home of Lena, a 30 year old PhD student, whose daily walks to sleep with the drifters and dreamers around her, married or otherwise, takes her across the poor immigrant district of this city of cakes and high culture, but there is a longing in her true heart for her own spiritual homeland beyond the confines of Austria and Catholicism.
Aziz, a Palestinian translator draws her into his strangeness and his dignity as he struggles to reconcile his newly found western desires with his deep Islamic beliefs. As she sits and smokes her home grown dope in her sparse flat, her conversation with Aziz and their respective lives only engenders a deep dissatisfaction with Vienna. She feels at home with Aziz and she is beginning to fall in love. They both have to leave Vienna, she to continue her work interviewing mixed marriage couples in Istanbul, he to attend his father's funeral in Palestine; they make an arrangement to meet.
Lena becomes absorbed in the abstraction of Islamic art and the beautiful aspects of Islam, its welcoming sisterhood, and the new friends she has made. She is more than willing to be led by Faruk from Manchester, England, while Aziz enduring life beyond the confines of Israeli intransigence and daily obstructions, is struggling with another dilemma, as he comes to terms with his father's abandonment of their family for another marriage and tries to avoid the longing in the eyes of his doe-eyed cousin for marriage to him.
Lena's broken wings begin to heal, she learns to fly, to `taste the moment of freedom, of ecstasy', her new inspiration, Rumi. We feel her confusion as she returns to Vienna where a surprise awaits her, and us.
Aziz, a Palestinian translator draws her into his strangeness and his dignity as he struggles to reconcile his newly found western desires with his deep Islamic beliefs. As she sits and smokes her home grown dope in her sparse flat, her conversation with Aziz and their respective lives only engenders a deep dissatisfaction with Vienna. She feels at home with Aziz and she is beginning to fall in love. They both have to leave Vienna, she to continue her work interviewing mixed marriage couples in Istanbul, he to attend his father's funeral in Palestine; they make an arrangement to meet.
Lena becomes absorbed in the abstraction of Islamic art and the beautiful aspects of Islam, its welcoming sisterhood, and the new friends she has made. She is more than willing to be led by Faruk from Manchester, England, while Aziz enduring life beyond the confines of Israeli intransigence and daily obstructions, is struggling with another dilemma, as he comes to terms with his father's abandonment of their family for another marriage and tries to avoid the longing in the eyes of his doe-eyed cousin for marriage to him.
Lena's broken wings begin to heal, she learns to fly, to `taste the moment of freedom, of ecstasy', her new inspiration, Rumi. We feel her confusion as she returns to Vienna where a surprise awaits her, and us.
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