Damascus Taste of a City: Taste of a City (Armchair Traveller) - Hardcover

Schami, Rafik; Fadel, Marie

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9781904950301: Damascus Taste of a City: Taste of a City (Armchair Traveller)

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ISBN 10: 1904950302 ISBN 13: 9781904950301

Publisher: Haus Publishing, 2006

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It is said that when a man has lived seven years in Damascus, Damascus lives in him. Damascus was Rafik Schami's home for 25 years before he went into exile, and he never forgot it. This 'Pearl of the Orient' is still the city he loves more than any other. Thirty years later, and now a prize-winning novelist, Schami leapt at the chance to write about his former home town. There were, however, two seemingly insurmountable barriers - time and geography. So Schami's sister Marie wandered through Damascus for a year on his behalf, relaying curiosities, sounds, personalities, tastes and the smells of the Old City, while Schami wrote them down, relishing the diverse mark left on Damascene cuisine by its multifarious history.

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About the Author:

Rafik Schami was born in the Syrian capital Damascus in 1946, where he founded a newspaper Al-Muntalek displayed on the walls of the old city. In 1971 he emigrated to Germany, where he worked in factories and restaurants while studying chemistry and writing for newspapers and journals. Eight years later he graduated with a Ph.D. and then in 1980 founded the literary group ‘S�dwind’ (South wind) and a multi-cultural organization called ‘PoLiKunst-Verein’. He received several literary prizes including the Hermann-Hesse-Preis and the Prix de Lecture. His latest novel Die dunkle Seite der Liebe (The Dark Side of Love) was published by Hanser in 2004. Rafik Schami has written this book with the culinary help of his sister Marie Fadel.

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"Haus Publishing is to be congratulated on its new series, Armchair Traveller. Each one is neatly sized to fit a large pocket and very satisfying to hold, with its heavy cream pages with ample margins and an easy-on-the-eye design. The jackets themselves, illustrated continuously from front to back, urge the reader to open up and get started on the tour. And soon as he/she opens there's the first surprise -- a double-page pull-out transparent map of the area or city being travelled." Banipal Magazine

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