Mountain of Green Tea

by Abdullah, Thabit

• ISBN13: 9789774242670
• ISBN10: 977424267X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press

Summary

A collection of short stories from an eminent Egyptian writer whose primary source of material was the harsh life of the peasants of Upper Egypt and the tales of those who migrated to Cairo in order to find work.

Author Biography

Yayha Taher Abdullah was born in 1942 in Karnak near Luxor in Upper Egypt. He had little formal education but was soon regarded as one of the most promising of the younger generation of writers. He published three volumes of short stories and one novella. He died in a car crash in the summer of 1981.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
The Mountain of Green Tea	1	(5)
The Inheritor	6	(4)
The Free-for-all Dance	10	(9)
The Tattoo	19	(6)
The Lofty One	25	(5)
Rhythms in Slow Time	30	(5)
Pilgrim's Return	35	(4)
The Body	39	(2)
Grandad Hasan	41	(9)
The Story of the Upper Egyptian who, overcome by fatigue, went to sleep under the wall of the old mosque	50	(7)
Who'll Hang the Bell?	57	(8)
A Tale Told by a Dog	65	(18)
The Gipsy	83	(10)
Words to the Winds	93	(12)
A Tale with a Moral	105