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Under the Naked Sky

Short Stories from the Arab World

Denys Johnson-Davies translator Denys Johnson-Davies editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Saqi Books

Published:1st Feb '01

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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.

ISBN: 9780863563874

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 20mm

Weight: 455g

243 pages

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