A Land Like You FICTION and provocative summer comedy

and provocative summer comedy

this is no ordinary memoir

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from the Holocaust to the fall of the Berlin Wall

A Land Like You FICTION and provocative summer comedyA 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