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The Book of Khartoum - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
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The Book of Khartoum - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Reading the City
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List price R319
Loot Price R287
Discovery Miles 2 870
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Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja
word hartooma, meaning ‘meeting place’. Geographically,
culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly
that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of
Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless
refugees displaced by Sudan’s long, troubled history of forced
migration. In the pages of this book – the first major anthology
of Sudanese stories to be translated into English – the city also
stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour
of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a
colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the
dreams of a young boy, playing in his father’s shop, act out a
future that may one day be his. Diverse literary styles also come
together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the
surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the
first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new
‘Iksir’ generation. As with any great city, it is from these
complex tensions that the best stories begin.
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