| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 304 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Collection of new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under forty. |
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"A Hay Festival project"--Cover. |
| Contents |
Preface / Hanan al-Shaykh -- Judges' announcement -- Introduction / Abdo Wazen -- Editor's note -- Bedouins on the Edge / Abdelaziz Errachidi -- Trip to the Slaughterhouse / Abdelkader Benali -- Wounded Man / Abdellah Taia -- Amazigh / Abderrahim Elkhassar -- Skin of shadow / Abderrazak Boukebba -- Twentieth terrorist / Abdullah Thabit -- At the post office / Adania Shibli -- Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmad Saadawi -- Eight poems from The Utopia of Cemeteries / Ahmad Yamani -- Coexistence / Ala Hlehel -- Three poems / Bassim al Ansar -- Two stories / Dima Wannous -- Mimouna / Faiza Guene -- Three Stories / Hala Kawtharani -- Secret pleasures / Hamdy el Gazzar -- Last hanging poem / Hussein al Abri -- Three poems / Hussein Jelaad -- Layla's belly / Hyam Yared -- Who are you carrying that rose for? / Islam Samhan -- Geology of the I' in the book of J / Joumana Haddad -- Scalpel / Kamel Riahi -- Threshold of ashes / Mansour El Souwaim -- Path to madness / Mansoura Ez Eldin -- Haneef from Glasgow / Mohammad Hassan Alwan -- Boat that dislikes the riverbank / Mohammad Salah al Azab -- Like the blade of a knife / Nagat Ali -- Pools and the piano / Najwa Binshatwan -- Six Poems / Najwan Darwish -- Thirteen Poems / Nazem El Sayed -- America / Rabee Jaber -- Story of my building / Randa Jarrar -- Guardians of the air / Rosa Yassin Hassan -- Scent of cinnamon / Samar Yezbek -- Nine Poems / Samer Abou Hawwash -- Crime in Mataeem Street / Wajdi al Ahdal -- Raven's Leg / Yahya Amqassim -- Two stories / Yassin Adnan -- Suicide 20, or The Hakimi Maqama / Youssef Rakha -- Nine poems / Zaki Baydoun --Notes on the text -- Notes on the authors -- Notes on the translators. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Beirut 39 presents the best work of young Arab writers from around the world. Selected by a panel of eminent Arab critics, writers and editors, in a competition sponsored by the Hay Festival, these thirty-nine emerging talents are all under the age of thirty-nine, and hail from sixteen different countries-from Morocco to Oman, from Sudan to the Netherlands and France. Their fiction and poetry collected here represents the vibrancy and diversity of Arab literature today. |
| Language |
Chiefly translated from Arabic. |
| Subject |
Arabic literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Arabic literature -- 21st century -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Shimon, Samuel, 1956-
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Hay Festival.
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| Added Title |
Beirut thirty-nine |
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New writing from the Arab world |
| ISBN |
9781608192021 alkaline paper |
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1608192024 alkaline paper |
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