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THE ANCHOR BOOK OF MODERN ARABIC FICTION
By: Denys Johnson-Davies
Anchor
October 2006
On Sale: October 17, 2006
512 pages
ISBN: 1400079764
EAN: 9781400079766
Paperback
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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 βthe leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,β 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 Mahfouzβs 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 Egyptβs vibrant spoken vernacular. An excerpt from the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salihβs novel Season of Migration to the North, one of the Arab worldβs finest, appears alongside the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Koniβs tales of the Tuaregs of North Africa, the Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayirβs masterly story βClocks Like Horses,β and the work of such women writers as Lebanonβs Hanan al-Shaykh and Moroccoβs Leila Abouzeid.
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