A Retired Gentleman, And Other Stories

Issa J Boullata's characters are emigrants to Canada and the USA from Arab countries, living with pasts that cannot be relived, with exile and loss. How do you settle into a new life? What happens to all your old relations? How do you go about making new ones? Can you find happiness? Can you fall in love again? After a lifetime working as a professor and translator of Arabic literature, Palestinian scholar and author Issa J. Boullata regales his readers with a collection of tales that looks resolutely and quietly at life's hopes, dreams, and loves.