The Thin Line (novel)

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The Thin Line
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First edition (US)
Author Edward Atiyah
Original titleThe Thin Line (novel)
Language English
Genre Crime fiction
Publisher Peter Davies (UK)
Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date
1951
Publication place Britain
Media typePrint

The Thin Line, later re-issued as Murder, My Love, is a 1951 crime novel by the British-Lebanese author Edward Atiyah. [1] [2] It was filmed twice, first as The Stranger Within a Woman by Naruse Mikio, 1966, [3] and then by Claude Chabrol, as Just Before Nightfall , 1971.

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References

  1. Layla Al Maleh Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab 9042027185 2009 "In 1946, Edward Atiyah, a British citizen of Lebanese origin and author of The Arabs (1958), An Arab Tells His Story (1946), The Thin Line (1951) (a history, an autobiography and a novel successively), and several other novels," Edward Atiyah earlier met with the same success with his first novel, The Thin Line, republished in the USA by Harper and ... a French production appeared instead under the title Juste avant la nuit, directed by Claude Chabrol
  2. Wail S. Hassan Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab .0199354979- 2014 "Yet Atiyah went further by writing as an Englishman in crime novels such as The Thin Line (1951) and The Crime of Julian Masters (1959), which are set in England and populated by English characters"
  3. Catherine Russell The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity 2008 0822388685 "Naruse and screenwriter Ide Toshiro may have chosen to switch The Thin Line to The Stranger within a Woman (Onna ... The thin line for Atiyah is the one between respectable society and the criminal underworld, a theme that lends itself well to Japanese culture with its strong sense of propriety and correct behavior. However, the key scene that the script omits comes when the wife is first introduced in the novel."