| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 202 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Middle East literature in translation |
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Middle East literature in translation.
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| Summary |
Gathers work from sixteen Iraqi writers, all translated from Arabic, shedding a bright light on the rich diversity of Iraqi experience. |
| Contents |
Yusuf''s tales ; The turtle grandmother ; Friday bounties / Muhammad Khodayyir -- Hayaat's garden ; Shahrazad and her narrators ; Lighter than angels / Lutfiyya al-Dulaimi -- Waiting ; The returnee ; Breaking away ; Morning exercises ; A dreamer in dark times / Mahdi Isa al-Saqr -- Her realm of the real ; Calendars ; Outage / Mayselun Hadi -- The tattoo ; A man and a woman / Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie -- The soul ; That thing we call age ; A dormant alphabet ; Sexual complacency / Samira Al-Mana -- Goodbye, hippopotamus / Abdul Sattar Nasir -- Zalaikha / Jalil al-Qaisi -- Tantal / Samir Naqqash -- Those boys / Salima Salih -- The street vendor and the movies / Samuel Shimon -- Bitter morning ; A figure in repose / Mahmoud Saeed -- Bar of sweet dreams ; Sufi blessings / Nasrat Mardan -- The nursery ; The other in the mirror / Ibtisam Abdullah -- The Arctic refugee / Ibrahim Ahmed -- A belly dancer from Baghdad / Shmuel Moreh. |
| Subject |
Arabic fiction -- Iraq -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Mustafa, Shakir (Shakir M.)
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| ISBN |
9780815609025 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0815609027 hardcover alkaline paper |
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