Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys
Johnson-Davies brings together a colourful mosaic of life as lived
and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of
the world with the common factor of a written language, these
thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills
snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years
as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian
village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the
steamy meeting of two women and a catat the height of an Iraqi
summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the
Tuareg deserts of Libya; and a novel way of hunting ducks in the
Nile Delta. The purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia
of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris and others.
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