Raja Alem is the author of seven novels, many plays, and
collections of poetry. She lives in Jidda, Saudi Arabia.
Tom McDonough is the author of a novel, Virgin with Child,
and a short story collection, Light Years. His cinematography won
an Academy Award for the feature documentary Best Boy.
Told in the form of dreams and living parables, Fatma is full of
vivid descriptions that billow from Alem's bottomless well of Saudi
culture. Nuggets of wisdom are sequestered within these languid
lines of prose like diamonds in the rough." - Virginia Quarterly
Review
"One might consider this tale a revelation of Arabian women's inner
lives in rebellion against the confines imposed on them - or
perhaps an exploration of innate suspicion between male and female.
Or perhaps there is no identifiable meaning, just effect. The
highly sensuous text was shaped by McDonough, who adds an afterword
about his working relationship with the Saudi author." -
Multicultural Review
"Dreams, myths, and prophecies figure prominently in this elegant
and eerie tale - an unusual collaboration between the Saudi Arabian
woman who wrote it in English and the American cinematographer
whose revision of her manuscript thus is, and isn't literally a
'translation.'... A unique fever dream." - Kirkus Reviews
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