The Wedding of Zein (Paperback)

"The Wedding of Zein "takes place in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North "is largely set, but here the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic and redemptive rather than tragic. Everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that Zein is getting married--Zein the freak, Zein who no sooner than he was born burst into laughter and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein who never wears shoes and does not trim his nails. Zein married at last? Zein's role in the village is not to get married himself but to fall in love with girls who then marry someone else. The story of how this miracle came to be is a story that engages the tensions that exist in the village, or indeed in any community--tensions between the devout and the profane, the poor and the propertied, the modern and the traditional--and as it plays out in Salih's agile hands it reveals a prospect, absurd and yet wonderful and certainly wonderfully entertaining, of their ultimate reconciliation--a mythical, utopian vision from the deep past or the ideal future of the world made whole.
Salih's classic novella appears with two of his finest short stories, "The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid" and "A Handful of Dates."

General

Imprint:	The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	March 2010
Authors:	Tayeb Salih
Introduction by:	Hisham Matar
Translators:	Denys Johnson-Davies
Dimensions:	201 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-342-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-59017-342-2
Barcode:	9781590173428

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