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Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders)
W. W. Norton & Company
November 2010
On Sale: November 8, 2010
657 pages
ISBN: 0393065855
EAN: 9780393065855
Hardcover
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A landmark literary event, this groundbreaking work spans a century of literature by the region's best writersโfrom the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamukโall of them bound together not by borders and nationalities but by a common experience of colonial domination and western imperialism. As best-selling author Reza Aslan writes, the mesmerizing prose of the Middle East-Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu-has been virtually excluded from the canon available to English readers. Under the umbrella of Words Without Borders, Aslan has assembled this extraordinary collection of short stories, memoirs, essays, and poems, featuring both contemporary and historical works, with many of the selections newly appearing in English. Featuring literature from countries as diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, Tablet & Pen is a long-awaited work that is to be devoured as a single sustained narrative from the first page to the last.
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