Exiles, by M. Cruz
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From the war-torn Jordan Valley to our nation’s capital, Exiles reaches into the life of one man and one woman to explore one of the longest-lasting and most painful situations in our time: the displacement of the Palestinians and the unceasing turmoil in the Middle East. This is a story about the search and battle for identity of a people who have paid the price of no peace in the land of the Bible, who are expected to pay a debt to the dead and disinherited, and who are fated to act out decisions made by others long ago. When Harry Mann arrives in Amman for a tour of diplomatic duty in 1969, he finds a nation heading for upheaval and he sets about to put it right. His Chicana wife, Mercedes, fresh out of an alcoholic treatment center, is discontent to play the empty and unfulfilling role of a Foreign Service Officer’s wife. She is, in many ways, as displaced a person as are the Palestinian refugees who now life in Jordan. Nabil Dajani is one of those Palestinians who now serves as Minister of Public Works in King Hussein’s cabinet. Like Mercedes, he is a man in great conflict: torn by the inner struggle between his liberal, internationalist outlook and the confines of traditional and provincial Islamic fundamentalism. Alienated from his wife, it is only a matter of time before he and Mercedes seek, in one another, some solace for their discontents. In its careful evocation, Exiles transports us to a land that resonates with ancient majesty and today’s heartaches and joys. One reads not only to discover the fate of its characters, but also to gain a growing understanding of the complex changes occurring in the Islamic world.
Exiles, by M. Cruz- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly If this nation can survive its own Foreign Serviceas it is portrayed here from an insider's jaundiced perspective (Cruz is, we are told, the wife of an American diplomat)it can survive anything. The scene opens in 1969 in Vientiane, where Harry Mann, a career diplomat, is preparing for transfer to Amman. Mercedes, his wisecracking, fast-talking Chicana wife, tries playfully to knife him for maligning her to her best friend (whose own little escapades include flings with some generals, a couple of Presidents and a papal nuncio). Harry has described Mercedes as "wacky," "crazy," a "total space case,"all because she's a riotous drunkard who requires periodic drying-out. Once in Amman, Mercedes, now on the wagon, meets Nabil, a minister in Hussein's cabinet, and it is something else at first sight. As a Chicana, she is an "exile," and as a Palestinian "refugee" in Jordan, so is he, a technocrat suspended between the ancient tribal ethos and the modern world. Their protracted affair, on which the narrative focus is fixed, comes finally to naught. By turns the novel is amusing and irritating, shrewd and ingenuous, serious and frivolous to the point of silly slapstick. One must decry some serious lapses in judgment and tact on the part of a talented writer. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal Americans living in foreign lands as dependents of diplomats walk a fine line to avoid infringing on local customs. It's especially hard when the host country is volatile Jordan and the diplomat's wife is an extravangantly temperamental Chicana with a taste for alcohol. When she is attracted to a Moslem bureaucrat who's close to the King, her husband nudges her to do some informal data gathering. Mercedes sparkes an answering glint in the minister's heart, and by a miracle of coincidence, the two get to spend a passionate week in Washington, D.C. Because the author successfully frames the lovers as emotional exiles yearning for a safe harbor, the affair is really an exploration of the harsh contradictions of marriage, friendship, and personal identity in a violent age. The author, herself a wife stationed in an Arab land, conveys these feelings with affecting lucidity and colorful authenticity. Barbara Conaty, Medical Coll. of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review "In volatile Jordan, a diplomat's wife is attracted to a Muslem bureaucrat who is close to the King. Their affair is really an exploration of the harsh contradictions of marriage, friendship, and personal identity in a violent age. The author conveys these feelings with affecting lucidity and colorful authenticity." --Library Journal
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