Fencing With the King by Diana Abu-Jaber. 'Fencing with the King' combines family mystery, political intrigue, and some heart-pounding danger for the Jordanian-American main character, Amani. But author Diana Abu-Jaber pulls back a curtain to reveal the essence of this land, its culture, and its people. 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. Diana Abu-Jabers most recent culinary memoir, Life Without A Recipe, has been described as a book of love. I thought I knew the country fairly well. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Fencing with the King In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani familys ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a. 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 60th 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. Īmani is hooked on a mystery - a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.
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