Canceled Memories: A Novel

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Canceled Memories Middle East Literature in Translation Michael Beard and Adnan Haydar, Series Editors Selected Titles from Middle East Literature in Translation A Brave New Quest: One Hundred Modern Turkish Poems Talat S. Halman, trans. and ed., Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. A Child from the Village Sayyid Qutb; John Calvert and William Shepard, eds. and trans. Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology Shakir Mustafa, ed. and trans. Distant Train: A Novel Ibrahim Abdel Megid; Hosam Aboul-Ela, trans. I, Anatolia and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama, Volume Two Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner, eds. İbrahim the Mad and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama, Volume One Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner, eds. The Journals of Sarab Affan: A Novel Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; Ghassan Nasr, trans. My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca Raja Alem and Tom McDonough Sleeping in the Forest: Stories and Poems Sait Faik; Talat S. Halman, ed., and Jayne L. Warner, assoc. ed. Thieves in Retirement: A Novel Hamdi Abu Golayyel; Marilyn Booth, trans. Canceled Memories a novel Nazik Saba Yared Translated from the Arabic by Nadine Sinno Syracuse University Press :~'.··~i: . s/u English translation copyright © 2009 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5160 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2009 09 10 11 12 13 14     6 5 4 3 2 1 Originally published in Arabic as Al-Dhikrayat al-mulghat (Beirut: Nawfal, 1998). The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984.∞™ For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0937-7   ISBN-10: 0-8156-0937-X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yarid, Nazik Saba. [Dhikrayat al-mulghah. English] Canceled memories : a novel / Nazik Saba Yared ; translated from the Arabic by Nadine Sinno. p. cm. — (Middle East literature in translation) ISBN 978-0-8156-0937-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) I. Sinno, Nadine. II. Title. PJ7874.A77D4513 2009 892.7'36—dc22 200804873 Manufactured in the United States of America ...