{"title":"Yasmeen Hanoosh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYasmeen Hanoosh\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an award-winning literary translator, Arabic fiction writer, and professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Portland State University. She is the translator of Elias Khoury's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eOn the Relations of the Circle\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand is currently at work on his seminal collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Ongoing Nakba, \u003c\/i\u003eand the third installment of his groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Ghetto \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy, his last novel\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e titled \u003ci\u003eA Man Like Me. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"on-the-relations-of-the-circle","title":"On the Relations of the Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the Beirut of Elias Khoury’s first novel, children converse with sparrows, walk with pine trees, and embrace their branches like old companions. A young orphan named Mansour is trying to locate his beginnings. Twelve toes (no ten), a family name, and a father. “Every evening, we retell the story. The story has no ending.” And so his tale takes shape again. Mansour exchanges candied almonds with a saint and speaks to a woman who would like to trade her eyebrows for his, captured by their beauty. He watches fava beans leap from a bowl and climb up his arm. With each curve of Mansour’s dreams, Elias Khoury sets the coordinates for the questions and concerns that will radiate throughout his exquisite body of fiction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Relations of the Circle\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas published in 1975, the year the Lebanese Civil War began. Khoury’s visions of the past, present, and future follow paths as unpredictable as the sun’s rays. They beam and bend, his tales expand and contract, as if anticipating the outbreak of war. Mansour resists the fractures and erasures of war. He buys pens and notebooks, sketching a map of his city as he sees and feels it. “Mansour decides that life is beautiful, that the earth deserves the swaying of trees.” Elias Khoury’s recursive stories, glimpses, and dreams hold fast to Mansour’s decision, offering a story of beauty and humanity just before it vanishes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp hidden\u003eElias Khoury\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55023108784296,"sku":"9781962770750","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/9203\/files\/9781962770750_d66d009f-9bc7-4865-b77e-30c11d4b9b5f.jpg?v=1776892690"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/yasmeen-hanoosh.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}