Under the Naked Sky : Short Stories from the Arab World
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0863563872
ISBN-13
9780863563874
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Saqi Books
Imprint
Saqi Books
Country of Manufacture
LB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 2001
Print length
243 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 23.00 x 1.90 cms
Ksh 2,450.00
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Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, the author brings together a mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. These thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; and more.
Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson-Davies brings together a colourful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a catat the height of an Iraqi summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya; and a novel way of hunting ducks in the Nile Delta. The purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris and others.
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