{"id":1390,"date":"2017-03-13T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2022-02-05T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T19:32:29","slug":"edelsteingarten-in-laxenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/edelsteingarten-in-laxenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"THE JEWEL GARDEN IN LAXENBURG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reading in the Laxenburg Public Library &#038; Media Library<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008b8b;\">Wednesday March 22, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Laxenburg Public Library &#038; Media Library invites you to a reading by the author Susanne Ayoub from her novel &#8220;The Jewel Garden&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe event begins at <span style=\"color: #008b8b;\"><strong>7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0at Wiener Stra\u00dfe 2a.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Edelsteingarten-160x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Edelsteingarten-160x250.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Edelsteingarten-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Edelsteingarten.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 85vw, 160px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A FAMILY DRAMA WITH the feel of a thriller<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Laura, Christmas Eve 1955 begins like so many others, with discord in the family home. But then an unexpected visitor shows up: Younis, a young man from Baghdad. And all at once everything changes. Before the year is out, Laura and Younis are a couple. Laura leaves Vienna, her parents, and her friends, and follows Younis to Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>In the Garden of the Gods in the epic of Gilgamesh, the trees, leaves, and fruits are made of precious stones. There are no thorns, only crystals; no darkness, only sunshine. For Laura, the path into her new life seems as fabulous as this vision. The world of the Near East with its colors, fragrances, and sounds immediately draws her under its spell. But beyond the magnificent mansions of Baghdad, where the affluent live in isolation, this idyll comes to an end. The assassination of the royal family topples the Iraqi monarchy. Alone at home with her small child, Laura experiences the outbreak of civil war. Nothing remains as it was. Younis too becomes a different person. He leads a second life that Laura is not allowed to know about. She realizes she has married a stranger.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1391\" style=\"width: 210px\"  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1391 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0011-210x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0011-210x250.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0011-862x1024.jpg 862w, https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0011-1200x1426.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 85vw, 210px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Baghdad by Rima Al-Juburi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Susanne Ayoub tells the story of a brave young woman\u2019s attempt to gain access to a foreign culture, of differing worldviews and social norms. She describes the high and low points of a marriage and sheds light on the background of a politically dramatic time, from the assassination of the Hashemite royal family to the revolutions and civil wars that followed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Translation Geoffrey C. Howes<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reading in the Laxenburg Public Library &#038; Media Library Wednesday March 22, 2017 The Laxenburg Public Library &#038; Media Library invites you to a reading by the author Susanne Ayoub from her novel &#8220;The Jewel Garden&#8221;. The event begins at 7:00 p.m.\u00a0at Wiener Stra\u00dfe 2a. A FAMILY DRAMA WITH the feel of a thriller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/edelsteingarten-in-laxenburg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE JEWEL GARDEN IN LAXENBURG&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}