A Land Like YouAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 9 May 2023
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A riveting and revealing tale of an Egypt caught between tradition and modernity, multiculturalism and nationalism, oppression and freedom. Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effort to conceive, she participates in Muslim zar rituals. Zohar, the novelâ?Ts narrator, comes into the world, but because his motherâ?Ts breasts are dry, he is nursed by a Muslim peasantâ?"also believed to be possessedâ?"who has just given birth to a girl, Masreya. Suckled at the same breasts and united by a rabbiâ?Ts amulet, the milk-twins will be consumed by a passionate, earth-shaking love.A A Part fantastical fable, part realistic history, A Land Like You draws on ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathanâ?Ts deep knowledge of North African folk beliefs to create a glittering tapestry in which spirit possession and religious mysticism exist side by side with sober facts about the British occupation of Egypt and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Free Officersâ?T Movement. Historical figures such as Gamel Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and King Farouk mingle with Nathanâ?Ts fictional characters in this engaging story. A
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