The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy

by Frances Khirallah Noble

In this deftly turned story, author Frances Khirallah Noble presents a story that is at once sublimely comic yet surprisingly erudite in the subjects it tackles. Its hero, Kahlil Gibran Hourani, is an ordinary, in fact rather bumbling, middle-aged Syrian American optician. On the eve of his fifty-third birthday Kali finds himself confronting seminal questions. "I face the last third of my life, he reflects, "and I don't know what to do with myself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815608683
• ISBN13: 9780815608684
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.8"