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The tribe / Michael Mohammed Ahmad.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF AHMA	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781922146564 :
Name	Ahmad, Michael Mohammed author.
Title	The tribe / Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
Published	Artarmon, NSW Giramondo Publishing Company, 2014.
Description	156 pages ; 18 cm.
Summary	The Tribe is a collection of three novellas portraying life in an extended Muslim Allawite Lebanese-Australian family, as seen by one of its youngest members. The first novella describes the family house in the Sydney suburb of Alexandria, and the three generations who live, often in some discord, in its rooms; the second details the marriage of a cousin, and the threatened appearance of an estranged branch of the family at the ceremony; the third rounds off the cycle with the death of the family matriarch, the boy's grandmother. Together they offer an intimate insight into a community negotiating the conflict between tradition and modernity, and the complex tribal affiliations of the extended family.
Subjects	Lebanese -- Australia -- Fiction
	Families -- Fiction
	Australian fiction -- 21st century
	Western Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
Genre	Australian fiction
Series	Giramondo shorts
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Australian fiction . Australian fiction -- 21st century . Families -- Fiction . Lebanese -- Australia -- Fiction . Western Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction . See Also: Australian literature . Children's stories, Australian . Science fiction, Australian . Short stories, Australian . Authors: Ahmad, Michael Mohammed . Series: Giramondo shorts .