Ali and His Russian Mother
- 114 páginas
- 4 horas de lectura
Alexandra Chreiteh Libros
Alexandra Chreiteh es una autora libanesa celebrada por su prosa franca y su retrato sincero de las barreras que enfrentan las mujeres árabes. Su obra profundiza en las complejidades de la experiencia femenina dentro de sociedades patriarcales, exponiendo a menudo las tensiones entre tradición y modernidad. La escritura de Chreiteh se caracteriza por su franqueza y un estilo intransigente que impulsa a los lectores a confrontar las normas y expectativas sociales. A través de sus narrativas, explora los intrincados paisajes de la identidad, el deseo y la búsqueda de la liberación en contextos culturales donde las voces de las mujeres son frecuentemente marginadas.
The narrator of Always Coca-Cola, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father’s flower shop. Abeer’s bedroom window is filled by a view of a Coca-Cola sign featuring the image of her sexually adventurous friend, Jana. From the novel’s opening paragraph—“When my mother was pregnant with me, she had only one craving. That craving was for Coca-Cola”—first-time novelist Alexandra Chreiteh asks us to see, with wonder, humor, and dismay, how inextricably confused naming and desire, identity and branding are. The names—and the novel’s edgy, cynical humor—might be recognizable across languages, but Chreiteh’s novel is first and foremost an exploration of a specific Lebanese milieu. Critics in Lebanon have called the novel “an electric shock.”