The Resource The house of Youssef, Yumna Kassab
The house of Youssef, Yumna Kassab
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The item The house of Youssef, Yumna Kassab represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The debut collection by a Lebanese-Australian writer remarkable for her focus on the immigrant family and her understated minimalist style. The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in the suburbs of Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around the themes of isolation, the expectations of the family, and nostalgia for the home country. In particular, House of Youssef is about relationships, and the customs which complicate them: children growing away from their parents, the dark secrets in marriage, the breakable bonds between friends. The stories are told with extreme minimalism - some are only two pag es long - heightening their emotional intensity. The collection is framed by two soliloquies. The first expresses the longing of an old man for the homeland he will never return to. The second is the monologue of a mother addressed to her daughter, about life in the new country and its disappointments. The two sequences of stories are composed of vignettes which focus on moments of domestic crisis, and which combine, in the title sequence, to chart the demise of a single family, 'the house of Youssef'
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Contents
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- Motherland
- The house of Youssef
- Homing
- Darkness, speak
- Isbn
- 9781925818192
- Label
- The house of Youssef
- Title
- The house of Youssef
- Statement of responsibility
- Yumna Kassab
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The debut collection by a Lebanese-Australian writer remarkable for her focus on the immigrant family and her understated minimalist style. The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in the suburbs of Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around the themes of isolation, the expectations of the family, and nostalgia for the home country. In particular, House of Youssef is about relationships, and the customs which complicate them: children growing away from their parents, the dark secrets in marriage, the breakable bonds between friends. The stories are told with extreme minimalism - some are only two pag es long - heightening their emotional intensity. The collection is framed by two soliloquies. The first expresses the longing of an old man for the homeland he will never return to. The second is the monologue of a mother addressed to her daughter, about life in the new country and its disappointments. The two sequences of stories are composed of vignettes which focus on moments of domestic crisis, and which combine, in the title sequence, to chart the demise of a single family, 'the house of Youssef'
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kassab, Yumna
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Immigrants
- Immigrants
- Lebanese
- Families
- Australia
- Label
- The house of Youssef, Yumna Kassab
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Motherland -- The house of Youssef -- Homing -- Darkness, speak
- Control code
- 000065466517
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781925818192
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The house of Youssef, Yumna Kassab
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Motherland -- The house of Youssef -- Homing -- Darkness, speak
- Control code
- 000065466517
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781925818192
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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