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Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
Denys Johnson-Davies translator Denys Johnson-Davies editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The American University in Cairo Press
Published:4th Apr '12
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Key selections of Egyptian authors by the world renowned, award-winning translator of Arabic fiction. Ideal introduction to the Arabic short story for anyone studying Arabic.
Denys Johnson-Davies brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.
ISBN: 9789774166549
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 522g
372 pages