![]() Fencing with the King is a flavorful page-turner that will both nourish and satiate. From start to finish, her dynamic prose and seemingly effortless storytelling create an original narrative of love, intrigue, and family/global dynamics. ![]() "Diana Abu Jaber outdoes herself with this brilliantly paced and utterly absorbing novel. 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.įencing 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.Ībout the Author: Diana Abu-Jaber is the award-winning author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crescent and The Language of Baklava. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.Īmani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. ![]()
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