Fencing with the King: A Novel Audiobook by Diana Abu-Jaber

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 574166 Title: Fencing with the King: A Novel Author: Diana Abu-Jaber Narrator: Rasha Zamamiri Format: Unabridged Length: 11:07:30 Language: English Release date: 03-15-22 Publisher: Findaway Voices Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women 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 mysterya poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her fathers 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 kings sixtieth birthdayand 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 complicatedand dangerousafter 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. Contact: [email protected]