The writing style in A balcony over the Fakihani by Liyana Badr

¶ … BALCONY OVER THE FAKIHANI

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the book "A Balcony over the Fakihani," by Liyana Badr. Specifically, it will discuss the author's writing style.

BALCONY OVER THE FAKIHANI

Badr's writing style is somewhat fragmented and "stream of consciousness, especially when the narrator's are remembering details of something that happened previously. Most of her writing is sharp and quick, and reminiscent of what the characters live through each day. They can be dead in a moment - killed by the bombs that fall continually, or by the shrapnel from the bombs, and many characters in the novel meet this fate.

The writing style of short, staccato sentences is like the machine gun fire that residents of Palestine hear all the time, and she uses it very effectively to draw the reader into the book. Her descriptions of the neighborhoods, the people, and their constant movement from town to town are beautiful and haunting at the same time. She is at her best when she talks of the good that she thinks will come to the people, like there "will be times of beauty and light," and describing the scenes in the towns when there is no bombing.