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A history of the Brunson family

A history of the Brunson family is a poetry first published in 1963 by the mid-20th-century author Marion Bailey Brunson. Indexed in KitabiHub under Poetry, History & Biography, Modern Arabic Fiction, it sits alongside other poetry on the same shelf.

Like much of the Arabic literary tradition, A history of the Brunson family rewards close reading: its rhythms reach back to a thousand years of poetry and rhetoric, while its concerns — exile, memory, the city, the desert, the relationship between the writer and the political moment — speak directly to the present. Readers approaching the book without prior background will find the description above a useful entry point; those already familiar with Marion Bailey Brunson's work will recognise the recurring preoccupations.

This page is part of the KitabiHub catalogue of Arabic-language literature. From here you can follow the author link to see Marion Bailey Brunson's full bibliography on the site, jump to any of the categories above to browse adjacent works, or return to the main library to keep exploring. Cover image and bibliographic metadata are sourced from the open catalogues described on our sources page.

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Original language
Arabic
Publication year
1963
Length
178 pages
Editions indexed
1
Format
Literary work

About the author

Marion Bailey Brunson is part of the long Arabic literary tradition catalogued on KitabiHub. Their work appears alongside the great voices of the Nahda renaissance, the Cairo realists of the mid-twentieth century, and the new generation of writers from across the Arab world.

→ See the full bibliography of Marion Bailey Brunson

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