Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Originally published in Arabic as Hayawat Okhra (Beirut: Arrawi, 2010)Īll rights reserved. Read moreĪn imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.Ĥ6 Crosby Street, Northampton, Massachusetts 01060Įnglish translation © Michelle Hartman, 2014Ĭover illustration by Evguenia Evenbach (1889-1981) Humaydan deftly explores one woman’s negotiation of love and war, intimacy and loss, migration and home in a way that speaks beyond individual but to a collective experience. She is forced to confront the ghosts of the civil war-her dead brother, her disappeared lover, and the life that she left behind when she immigrated to Australia. Again and again, she is drawn back to the Lebanon of her birth and childhood, only to find it no longer there. Unwilling to be tied down by geography, language or men, Miriyam forges a path through the world that is at once hers uniquely and also deeply informed by her life’s experiences. In Other Lives, Miriyam’s travels take her from her Shouf mountain village to Beirut, Melbourne and Paradise, Australia to Nairobi, Mombasa and Cape Town. This third novel by Lebanese writer, Iman Humaydan, starkly and poignantly demonstrates how war, violence and dislocation have an impact not only on the lives of people who live through them but what life itself means, particularly for women.

“Did I live many lives or only one life enough for many women?” asks Miriyam in Other Lives. A new novel from award-winning Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan.

Other Lives by Iman Humaydan