The Locust and the Bird (34 page)
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Authors: Hanan Al-Shaykh
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Personal Memoirs
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - 1932: Ever Since I Can Remember
Chapter 4 - Even Pigeons Go to School
Chapter 6 - Stone-Bearing Donkeys
Chapter 7 - ‘You Are Hereby My Witness’
Chapter 8 - A Single Drop of Blood
Chapter 9 - Escape into a Trap
Chapter 10 - How I Came to Be Married: to Mr Watch-out-or-else
Chapter 13 - Nadia’s Nightclub
Chapter 14 - ‘Good God … You Could Sew: a Dress for a Flea’
Chapter 15 - The Gallant of the Night
Chapter 16 - Clang, Clang, Clang … Gotcha, Gotcha, Gotcha!
Chapter 17 - Love’s First Signs
Chapter 18 - ‘You Cry So You Can Go to the Cinema: and Then You Come Home Crying!’
Chapter 20 - How I Came to Call My: Second Baby Hanan
Chapter 21 - The Lady and Ibrahim
Chapter 22 - The Walnut Tree Knows Everything
Chapter 23 - Four Years or Four Seconds
Chapter 24 - ‘You Lead Her This Way and That … Do You: Expect Me to Resole Her Shoes Every Day?’
Chapter 25 - His Indifference Sucks up My Desires; His Desires Suck up My Very Blood
Chapter 27 - There’s No More Money: in My Husband’s Drawer
Chapter 28 - ‘Forgive Me’ – ‘God Is the Forgiver’; ‘Forgive Me’ – ‘I Have Forgiven You’
Chapter 29 - The Persian Carpet
Chapter 30 - ‘I’m a Member of the Family: Suffering This Misfortune’
Chapter 32 - My Third Daughter, Ahlam; My First Son, Toufic
Chapter 35 - The 1958 Revolution Happened: Because of Me
Chapter 37 - ‘You Must Have the Wrong House’
Chapter 38 - ‘I Am Abu al-Hinn, the Tiniest of Birds. What’s the Point of Shooting Me?’
Chapter 39 - Muhammad Betrays Me
Chapter 40 - The Money in Your Pocket is More Beautiful Than Your Heart’s Desire
Chapter 41 - ‘Baba’s Here, Baba’s Here!’
Chapter 43 - The Marriage Season
Chapter 45 - Battuta’s Daughter
Chapter 46 - The War Has Ended
Chapter 47 - ‘One Stone Takes You Away, Another Brings You Back’