{"product_id":"the-thirty-names-of-night-zeyn-joukhadar","title":"The Thirty Names of Night (Zeyn Joukhadar)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eThe Millions \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of Fall by \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of the \"vivid and urgent...important and timely\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e) debut \u003ci\u003eThe Map of Salt and Stars\u003c\/i\u003e returns with this remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother's sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z's past is intimately tied to his mother's-and his grandmother's-in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z's story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn't and has never been alone, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning \u003ci\u003erare\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother's ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing Zeyn Joukhadar's signature \"magical and heart-wrenching\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e) storytelling, \u003ci\u003eThe Thirty Names of Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eZeyn Joukhadar is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Map of Salt and Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNames of Night\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and of American Mensa. Joukhadar's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSalon, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Map of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Stars\u003c\/i\u003e was a 2018 Middle East Book Award winner in Youth Literature, a 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. He has received fellowships from the Montalvo Arts Center, the Arab American National Museum, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Camargo Foundation, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade Paperback, Englisch, 304 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65882337542493,"sku":"K087356148","price":16.7,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8735614800001A.jpg?v=1789037996","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-thirty-names-of-night-zeyn-joukhadar","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}