000			01856nam a2200181 a 4500
001			ASIN1400079764
005			20190522121131.0
008			130322s2006 xxu eng d
020			_a1400079764 (paperback) _c$17.00
020			_a9781400079766 (paperback)
100	1		_aJohnson-Davies, Denys.
245	1	4	_aThe anchor book of modern arabic fiction / _cDenys Johnson-Davies.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bAnchor, _c2006.
300			_a512 p. ; _c20 cm.
520			_aThis 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 Moro
856			_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140
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