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Ismi Zayzafoune اسمي زيزفون
By: Hasan, Sausan Jamil سوسن جميل حسن
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Language: Arabic

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«احترق البيت، لم يبقَ غير جدران سوداء تفتح عيونَها على الفراغ، صار مثلَ جمجمة مُجوَّفة يملأها التراب وبيوض الديدان. واحترق دفتري، راح عُمري وذاكرتي، صرتُ كأنني لم أكن ولا مررتُ بهذه الحياة، كل ما أرجوه أن يتذكر كل من يقرأ روايتي حكاية زيزفون التي مرّت من هنا ومن هناك، زيزفون التي ناضلت أكثر من خمسين عامًا، منذ أن شغلها السؤال عن الرجعيّة، التي جاهدت من أجل أن تطمر جهيدة في تراب النسيان كي تكون ذاتها، زيزفون الاسم الذي أحبّتْه وشعرتْ أنه جدير بتمثيلها في الحياة، وبأن يكون رفيقها في سفرها الذي لم يغادر أحلامها، وراحت تدوّن تاريخها قبل أن يُنسى. احترق التاريخ وزحفت آلةٌ جبَّارةٌ على جدرانه السوداء لتهدمه وتغرز في الأرض وتدًا من الحديد يحمل لافتةً كُتِب عليها: المقصّ- مشروع دكان أُمّ جهيدة للبناء».
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«نص مُذهل، عميق، ملحمي. بين تعبٍ وراحة، جمالٍ وقبح، وكآبةٍ ولحظات فرحٍ مسروقة، روت زيزفون وبجرأة شديدة ما حدث لسوريا وما يحدث وما سيحدث، تاريخها لم يكن تاريخها وحدها أو تاريخ أسرتها وضَيْعتها، لكن تاريخ البلاد كلها.» - د. أمير تاج السر

Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Arab Booker), «My Name Is Zayzafoune» by Syrian writer Sausan Jamil Hasan.

The novel explores Arab moral double standards which make the individual, women in particular, wear a false face and live as spectators of their own lives rather than autonomous players in them. The two names of the heroine of the novel (Jahida/Zayzafoune) serve to highlight these double standards. After a watershed moment in her life when she faints, at the age of sixty Zayzafoune realises that life can be imagined in a way entirely different to how she has lived it all these years. This moment, in Latakia, Syria, on a Summer’s day in 2019, marks one of two parallel time strands in the novel, which continues into the early months of 2020. The second timeline consists of memories of the past. The novel reflects deeply on the self: In what ways do people hate themselves? How can they hold on to life and love it, and what reason can they find to do that? - (Arabicfiction.org)

Longlisted for the 2023 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

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Product Details
By:Hasan, Sausan Jamil سوسن جميل حسن
Language:Arabic
Format:Softcover
Pages: 296 pp
Publisher:Manshurat al-Rabi, Cairo 2023
Dimensions:14 x 21 cm
ISBN-13:9789776765450
Topic:Arabic Fiction - Syria

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Sausan Jamil Hasan is a Syrian novelist and doctor, born in Damascus, Syria, in 1957, currently living in Berlin. She studied Medicine at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria, and trained in hospitals in Abu Dhabi in the early 1980s, before practicing medicine in Latakia. In 2013, she resigned from her job in order to dedicate herself to writing fiction. She has published six novels, including Silk of the Darkness (2008), A Thousand Nights in a Night (2010) and My Name is Zayzafoune (2022). In 2020, she was the only Arabic author to be awarded a writers’ residency for those writing in languages other than German by the German Ministry of Culture. For many years, she has been a regular contributor to numerous Arabic newspapers, websites and journals.


Ismi Zayzafoune اسمي زيزفون
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