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- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
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- Feminist Press AT T.H.E. City University of NY
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- Biography & Autobiography, History
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- Personal Memoirs, Middle East / General
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The Homeland actress's "recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique" memoir (Publishers Weekly). Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment directed at her daily by the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father's last wish is for his favorite song, "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral instead of the traditional suras of the Koran. When she does just that, the final act of defiance elicits a catastrophic response from her surviving family members. In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly passionate about living her life as a liberated woman, even if it means leaving everyone and everything behind in this "beautifully taut and relentlessly unemotional" memoir (Kirkus).
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Publisher
Feminist Press AT T.H.E. City University of NY
ISBN-10
1558616837
ISBN-13
9781558616837
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102829928
Product Key Features
Book Title
Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Middle East / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Ds87.5.J6813 2011
Reviews
" The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is an intense, harrowing, and deeply disturbing memoir of a woman's sustained resistance to the world around her. Darina Al-Joundi 's story of her family life and youthful extremity in Beirut, of war and its unspeakable violence, and of a culture that becomes increasingly intolerant and oppressive in the name of religion, especially of women, is told with such brutal immediacy, I found myself both moved and frightened. At once personal and historical, the book is the testament of an unrepentant rebel, who, in the end, has no choice but to leave everything and everyone behind her."- Siri Hustvedt , author of The Sorrows of an American and The Shaking Woman, or a History of my Nerves " Darina Al-Joundi 's personal liberation became a conquest when it coincided with the civil war in Lebanon. To a merciless world she brings a merciless book."- Etel Adnan , author of Sitt Marie Rose "Born in Lebanon in 1968, Darina Al-Joundi came of age at the height of the Lebanese civil war. Her father initiated his three daughters into not only poetry and freedom of opinion, but alcohol, cigarettes, and erotic independence. By the time she reached her early twenties, she had held jobs ranging from TV actress to Red Cross worker, and had seen her native city bombed to oblivion. Al-Joundi's book reconstitutes the misadventures of her youth in a style that is at once heart-breaking and very funny."- Nancy Huston , author of Fault Lines, "Actress Al-Joundi's recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous... With her direct prose, Al-Joundi never wallows in the horrors or overplays the absurdity, instead striking a perfect balance in this unique account." -- Publishers Weekly "...beautifully taut and relentlessly unemotional... A pitiless, steely narrative, alternately heartbreaking and compelling." -- Kirkus " The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is no coming-of-age tale framed by easy, charming reflections on lessons gained from turbulent times. Instead, it's a feat that runs closer to the bone... The result is profound immediacy. Though readers experience the shock of abuse, even when the "music" stops, there is little doubt about Al-Joundi's ferocious resolve--right up to the promise in the book's final line." -- Venus Zine " The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is an intense, harrowing, and deeply disturbing memoir of a woman's sustained resistance to the world around her. Darina Al-Joundi's story is told with such brutal immediacy, I found myself both moved and frightened. At once personal and historical, the book is the testament of an unrepentant rebel, who, in the end, has no choice but to leave everything and everyone behind her." -- Siri Hustvedt, author of The Sorrows of an American "Darina Al-Joundi's personal liberation became a conquest when it coincided with the civil war in Lebanon. To a merciless world she brings a merciless book."-- Etel Adnan, author of Sitt Marie Rose "Al-Joundi's book reconstitutes the misadventures of her youth in a style that is at once heart-breaking and very funny."-- Nancy Huston, author of Fault Lines, "Actress Al-Joundi's recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous... With her direct prose, Al-Joundi never wallows in the horrors or overplays the absurdity, instead striking a perfect balance in this unique account." --Publishers Weekly "...beautifully taut and relentlessly unemotional... A pitiless, steely narrative, alternately heartbreaking and compelling." --Kirkus "The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is no coming-of-age tale framed by easy, charming reflections on lessons gained from turbulent times. Instead, it's a feat that runs closer to the bone... The result is profound immediacy. Though readers experience the shock of abuse, even when the "music" stops, there is little doubt about Al-Joundi's ferocious resolve--right up to the promise in the book's final line." --Venus Zine "The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is an intense, harrowing, and deeply disturbing memoir of a woman's sustained resistance to the world around her. Darina Al-Joundi's story is told with such brutal immediacy, I found myself both moved and frightened. At once personal and historical, the book is the testament of an unrepentant rebel, who, in the end, has no choice but to leave everything and everyone behind her." --Siri Hustvedt, author of The Sorrows of an American "Darina Al-Joundi's personal liberation became a conquest when it coincided with the civil war in Lebanon. To a merciless world she brings a merciless book."--Etel Adnan, author of Sitt Marie Rose "Al-Joundi's book reconstitutes the misadventures of her youth in a style that is at once heart-breaking and very funny."--Nancy Huston, author of Fault Lines, " The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing is an intense, harrowing, and deeply disturbing memoir of a woman's sustained resistance to the world around her. Darina Al-Joundi 's story of her family life and youthful extremity in Beirut, of war and its unspeakable violence, and of a culture that becomes increasingly intolerant and oppressive in the name of religion, especially of women, is told with such brutal immediacy, I found myself both moved and frightened. At once personal and historical, the book is the testament of an unrepentant rebel, who, in the end, has no choice but to leave everything and everyone behind her."-- Siri Hustvedt , author of The Sorrows of an American and The Shaking Woman, or a History of my Nerves " Darina Al-Joundi 's personal liberation became a conquest when it coincided with the civil war in Lebanon. To a merciless world she brings a merciless book."-- Etel Adnan , author of Sitt Marie Rose "Born in Lebanon in 1968, Darina Al-Joundi came of age at the height of the Lebanese civil war. Her father initiated his three daughters into not only poetry and freedom of opinion, but alcohol, cigarettes, and erotic independence. By the time she reached her early twenties, she had held jobs ranging from TV actress to Red Cross worker, and had seen her native city bombed to oblivion. Al-Joundi's book reconstitutes the misadventures of her youth in a style that is at once heart-breaking and very funny."-- Nancy Huston , author of Fault Lines
Copyright Date
2011
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2010-050136
Dewey Decimal
956.9204/4092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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Number of Pages
144 Pages
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