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Fencing with the King by Diana Abu-Jaber
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Fencing with the King

A Novel

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Narrator Rasha Zamamiri

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Length 11 hours 7 minutes
Language English
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Summary

A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Featuring a heartfelt author's note read by the author herself.



Amani is hooked on a mystery―a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king’s sixtieth birthday―and to fence with the king, as in their youth. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated―and dangerous―after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life.



Fencing with the King masterfully draws on King Lear and Arthurian fable to explore the power of inheritance, the trauma of displacement, and whether we can release the past to build a future.

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Audiobook details

Author:

Narrator:
Rasha Zamamiri

ISBN:
9781667067315

Length:
11 hours 7 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Spotify Audiobooks

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#22,202 Overall

Genre rank:
#2,255 in Fiction - Literary

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