Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a
collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely
connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s
margins. Tamer captures their everyday lives, weaving the attendant
cruelties and ironies of living under an oppressive regime with the
residents’ irreverence and small acts of defiance. Inspired by
the heroines of Arab mythology, the women of al-Qaweyq navigate the
patriarchal community with brash confidence and dark humor while
the younger generation of children inherit a bitter cynicism from
their fathers. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the
collection’s title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world
that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the
harvest. Considered a master of the short story, Zakaria Tamer is
one of the Arab world’s most prominent and widely read writers.
Columbu and Capallera’s fluid translation gives English readers
access to Tamer’s original and provocative voice
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