Under the Naked Sky Short Stories from the Arab World

Name: Under the Naked Sky Short Stories from the Arab World
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ISBN: 9789774247804

ISBN-10: 9774247809

ISBN-13: 9789774247804

Edition: 2nd 2003

Authors: Denys Johnson-Davies

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Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson-Davies brings together in this collection a colorful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a cat at the height of an Iraqi summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya; and…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Introduction


The Pilot



It's Not Fair



The Ill-Omened Golden Bird



Traveler with Hand Luggage



Death of a Dagger



Have You Seen Alexandria Station?



Women in Fear



An Invitation



The Dog



A Dash of Light



The Cloud



The Clock



Fear



Out in the Open



The Sound of Singing



The Charge



The Apples of Paradise



Corncobs



Snake Hunting



The Money Order



To the Night's Shelter



The Man Shouldn't Know of This



The Day Grandpa Came



My Fellow Passenger



The Women's Room



It Happened Secretly



Whiteness of Silver



The Return of the Prisoner



A Boat on the Water



Presence of the Absent Man



About the Authors