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The Book of Khartoum - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback) Loot Price: R287
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The Book of Khartoum - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback): Ahmed Al-Malik, Bushra Al-Fadil, Ali Al-Makk, Isa Al-Hilu, Arthur...

The Book of Khartoum - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)

Ahmed Al-Malik, Bushra Al-Fadil, Ali Al-Makk, Isa Al-Hilu, Arthur Gabriel Yak, Bawadir Bashir, Rania Mamoun, Mamoun Eltlib; Edited by Raphael Cormack, Max Shmookler

Series: Reading the City

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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.

General

Imprint: Comma Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Reading the City
Release date: April 2016
Authors: Ahmed Al-Malik • Bushra Al-Fadil • Ali Al-Makk • Isa Al-Hilu • Arthur Gabriel Yak • Bawadir Bashir • Rania Mamoun • Mamoun Eltlib
Editors: Raphael Cormack • Max Shmookler
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 978-1-905583-72-0
Subtitles: Arabic
Categories: Books > Fiction > General
LSN: 1-905583-72-9
Barcode: 9781905583720

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