| Gazelle Contributor(s): Ducornet, Rikki (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385720432 ISBN-13: 9780385720434 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle" traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the" exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother-whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth-moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth's imagination, primed by an explicit edition of The Arabian Nights, leads her to fantasies about her father's friend, a gentle, older man named Ramses Ragab, a perfume maker who visits their house regularly to play games of war and who opens her up to the mystery of hieroglyphics and the art of exotic scents. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.49 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - North Africa - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother-whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth-moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth's imagination, primed by an explicit edition of The Arabian Nights, leads her to fantasies about her father's friend, a gentle, older man named Ramses Ragab, a perfume maker who visits their house regularly to play games of war and who opens her up to the mystery of hieroglyphics and the art of exotic scents. |