Homecoming - Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories (Paperback)

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time.
He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.

General

Imprint:	The American University In Cairo Press
Country of origin:	Egypt
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	August 2014
Editors:	Denys Johnson-Davies
Translators:	Denys Johnson-Davies
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	372
ISBN-13:	978-977-416-654-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	977-416-654-X
Barcode:	9789774166549

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