Creating Rachel - Softcover

Mustafa Alrawi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070437272X ISBN 13: 9780704372726

Publisher: Quartet Books, 2012

Synopsis

Love addict, unshakeable romantic, optimist, cheat, self-styled tragic hero, gambler, diarist, poet - Mohammed is all these and, what's more, he has fallen in love with Rachel; twenty-one years old, Jewish, exotic-looking and damaged. Nothing can keep them apart, he thinks, not even that she doesn t love him back. In Creating Rachel, Mohammed goes to any and all lengths, racking up thousands of pounds of credit card debt to finance the increasingly desperate moves he believes will tip Rachel's heart in his favour. All the while wrestling with his jealousy, confusion, pain, longing and inner awakening. Here, in his first novel, Mustafa Alrawi paints a perfect picture of the over-privileged, twenty-something Arab living in London at the turn of the twenty-first century - a man who refuses to face the truth that his carefully constructed fantasy world is dying amid the inevitable changes that are about to happen post-9-11.

About this title

About the Author:

Mustafa Alrawi is a British writer, of Iraqi heritage, living in Dubai since 2004. He is a commentator, journalist and broadcaster and his articles have been published in the Guardian, Independent, Esquire, the Jordan Times, Lebanon's Daily Star, 7Days and The National. In 2003, he travelled to Baghdad and helped launch Iraq Today, the first independent English-language newspaper after the fall of Saddam Hussein. He was also the host of the radio show Al Majlis on Dubai Eye 103.8. Mustafa has written the one-act plays Out There and This Place about his experiences in the Middle East, and is currently working on a series of children's stories. He is married to Rana with whom he has one son, Taimoor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quartet Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 070437272X
• ISBN 13: 9780704372726
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120