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Bezig met laden... The other half of youdoor Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Editor)
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'I only ever asked you for one thing,' my father said, a quiver in his voice. 'Just this one thing.' It was as though I had smashed the Ten Commandments. 'Oh father,' I cried, grovelling at his ankles while my mother and siblings looked on. 'The one thing you asked of me - is everything.' Bani Adam has known all his life what was expected of him. To marry the right kind of girl. To make the House of Adam proud. But Bani wanted more than this - he wanted to make his own choices. Being the first in his Australian Muslim family to go to university, he could see a different way. Years later, Bani will write his story to his son, Kahlil. Telling him of the choices that were made on Bani's behalf and those that he made for himself. Of the hurt he caused and the heartache he carries. Of the mistakes he made and the lessons he learned. In this moving and timely novel, Michael Mohammed Ahmad balances the complexities of modern love with the demands of family, tradition and faith. The Other Half of You is the powerful, insightful and unforgettable new novel from the Miles Franklin shortlisted author of The Lebs. PRAISE FOR THE LEBS WINNER NSW Premier's Literary Awards Multicultural NSW Award 2019 SHORTLISTED Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019 'an open-eyed and highly charismatic novel broiling with fight, tenderness and ambition' Big Issue 'wonderfully vivid and compelling . . . utterly authentic' Books+Publishing Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Bani enters upon a series of attempts at arranged marriages, and eventually chooses a bride, with disastrous results.
Reading this book straight after Alice Pung's One Hundred Days was interesting; on the surface, they have so much in common. Both protagonists are first-generation children of strict and traditional immigrant parents. Both have a forbidden love affair. In both books the narrator is telling the story to their child. They even both cite the same verse from The Prophet. In Pung's novel though, there is a claustrophobia and tension that builds throughout, as Karuna tries to deal with her situation alone. In this book, Bani is surrounded by a community that he loves but needs to find some accommodation with to just be himself.
This book was at times amusing and at times sobering. The Arab community in Sydney is portrayed in a loving and self-deprecatory fashion, and Bani uses racial epithets that they would commonly use amongst themselves, but may be offensive to some readers. (