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050	0	0	_aPJ7694 _b.M366 1985
245	0	0	_aArabic Short Stories 1945-1965 / _cManzalaoui, Mahmoud.
260			_aCairo ; _aNew York : _bAmerican University in Cairo Press, _cc1985.
300			_a407 p. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aModern Arabic writing _938934
520			_aDrawing 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 illfated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya; and a novel way of hunting ducks in the Nile Delta. The purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Gamal al-Ghitani, and Mohamed El-Bisatie from Egypt; Fuad al-Takarli and Mohamed Khudayyir from Iraq; Zakaria Tamer from Syria; Hanan al-Shaykh from Lebanon; and Ibrahim al-Kouni from Libya.
650		0	_aShort stories, Arabic _vTranslations into English. _931332
650		0	_aArabic fiction _vTranslations into English. _938935
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