Arabic Short Stories

by Johnson-Davies, Denys

• ISBN13: 9780520089440
• ISBN10: 0520089448
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

Summary

An alleyway of Tangier as seen through the eyes of a prostitute, the price paid by a sophisticated Cairene philanderer for his infatuation with a young bedouin girl, the callous treatment a young wife receives from the man to whom she has been married. These are some of the themes of the twenty-four stories in this volume, each by a different author and rendered into English by one of the finest translators of Arabic fiction. Among the authors represented are Edward El-Kharrat, Bahaa Taher, Alifa Rifaat, and Ghassan Kanafani. Through the eyes of insiders, these stories show us the intimate texture of life throughout the diverse countries and cultures of the Arabic world.

Author Biography

Denys Johnson-Davies has lived most of his life in the Middle East and has published fifteen volumes of modern Arabic literature. He now lives in Cairo, Abu Dhabi, and Spain Roger Allen is Professor of Arabic at the University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Notes on authors	p. vii
Note on transliteration	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
The Chair Carrier	p. 1
The Gap in Kaltouma's Fence	p. 6
My Brother	p. 13
At a Woman's House	p. 22
Clocks Like Horses	p. 27
Advice from a Sensible Young Man	p. 40
Glimpses from the Life of Maugoud Abdul Maugoud and Two Postscripts	p. 46
Another Evening at the Club	p. 68
The Cypriot Man	p. 75
The Drumming Sands	p. 84
Cairo is a Small City	p. 99
The Persian Carpet	p. 106
Voices from Near and Far	p. 111
Birds' Footsteps in the Sand	p. 116
Life by Instalments	p. 128
Dreams Seen by a Blind Boy	p. 135
The Trial of the Small Black Woman	p. 137
Flower Crazy	p. 143
The Old Man	p. 149
Distant Seas	p. 151
The Little Girl in Green	p. 154
Small Sun	p. 158
The Slave Fort	p. 164
The Kerosene Stove	p. 169
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