Land Like You
Land Like You 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…
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Land Like You
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. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effort to conceive, she participates in Muslim zar rituals. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage.
Suckled at the same breasts and united by a rabbi's amulet, the milk-twins will be consumed by a passionate, earth-shaking love.Part fantastical fable, part realistic history, A Land Like You draws on ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Zohar, the novel's narrator, comes into the world, but because his mother's breasts are dry, he is nursed by a Muslim peasant--also believed to be possessed--who has just given birth to a girl, Masreya.