First published in 1940, but translated here for the first time,
this work comprises three poignant novellas of love and death in
the Egyptian countryside.
The heroines of Out El Kouloub's Three Tales tells the stories
of Nazira, Zahira, and Zarifa, whose narratives afford the rest of
the world a glimpse of the "veiled" culture from an insider's
perspective.
Throughout the book, Out El Kouloub takes the reader to a
variety of colorful locations -- through streets, bazaars, holy
sites and homes of Cairo. Her stories take her characters into the
intimate geographical and psychological space of different classes
and upbringings that make up Egyptian life. This is an Egypt
described not by an orientalist but by an Egyptian woman who has
either lived or observed the experiences that form the fabric of
her written work.
Three Tales is a companion volume to Ramza and Zanouba, also by
Out El Kouloub, and each translated from the French by Nayra
Atiya.
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