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The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
Denys Johnson-Davies
Anchor
October 2006
On Sale: October 17, 2006
512 pages ISBN: 1400079764 EAN: 9781400079766 Paperback
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Fiction Poetry
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine
outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world,
from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the
north to Sudan in the south.
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the
leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this
treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns,
but united by a common language. It spans the full history
of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western
cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to
the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz’s literary sons
and daughters. Among the Egyptian writers who laid the
foundation for the Arabic literary renaissance are the great
Tawfik al-Hakim; the short story pioneer Mahmoud Teymour;
and Yusuf Idris, who embraced Egypt’s vibrant spoken
vernacular. An excerpt from the Sudanese writer Tayeb
Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North, one of the
Arab world’s finest, appears alongside the Libyan writer
Ibrahim al-Koni’s tales of the Tuaregs of North Africa, the
Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayir’s masterly story “Clocks Like
Horses,” and the work of such women writers as Lebanon’s
Hanan al-Shaykh and Morocco’s Leila Abouzeid.
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