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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Ducornet, Rikki
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| Publisher: |
Anchor
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| Date: |
10/12/2004
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade,
Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the
exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth’s imagination, primed by an explicit edition of
The Arabian Nights, leads her to fantasies about her father’s friend, a gentle, older man named Ramses Ragab, a perfume maker who visits their house regularly to play games of war and who opens her up to the mystery of hieroglyphics and the art of exotic scents.
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