Hanan al-Shaykh with Esther Freud - World Literature Weekend
Friday 19 June 2009, 7 p.m. · 55 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/2/2/1/9/529122-9-eng-GB/526a69876995f.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/2/2/1/9/529122-9-eng-GB/526a69876995f.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/2/2/1/9/529122-9-eng-GB/526a69876995f.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/2/2/1/9/529122-9-eng-GB/526a69876995f.jpg 1200w)
The leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh was just seven years old when her mother, Kamila, sought a divorce from her father, who ran a strictly religious household. She read from and discussed her memoir The Locust and The Bird: My Mother’s Story with Esther Freud, the author of Hideous Kinky and The Sea House, as part of the London Review Bookshop’s World Literature Weekend.
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