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Here Is a Body (Paperback)
Basma Abdel Aziz; Translated by Jonathan Wright
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R427
Discovery Miles 4 270
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION
'Extraordinary... A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
'Gripping, darkly humorous...profound.' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive – first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.
An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.
A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar
Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks
like from a child's pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled
perspective. These are stories of life in a war zone, life peppered
by surreal mistakes, tragic accidents and painful encounters. These
are stories of fantasist matadors, lost limbs and perplexed
voyeurs. This is a collection about sex, death and the
all-important skill of making life into a joke. These are
unexpected stories by a very fresh voice. These stories are
unforgettable.
This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of
sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys
the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions
of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional
patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors
on pre-existing religious landscapes in a series of carefully
chosen locales: Cuzco, Edo, Geneva, Granada, Herat, Istanbul,
Jerusalem, Kanchipuram, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, and Rome. Some
chapters hone in on the process of imposing novel religious
beliefs, while others focus on how vestiges of displaced faiths
endured. The intersection of sacred landscapes with political
power, the world of ritual, and the expression of broader cultural
and social identity are also examined. Crucially, the volume
reveals that the creation of sacred space frequently involved more
than religious buildings and was a work of historical imagination
and textual expression. While a book of contrasts as much as
comparisons, the volume demonstrates that vital questions about the
location of the sacred and its reification in the landscape were
posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.
A lifetime ago, Fakhreddin had been an idealistic young lawyer,
seeking to fight corruption from his modest quarter of Cairo. Then,
a botched attempt on his life forced him to flee the country,
propelling him on a wild journey that would lead to Afghanistan's
jihadi training camps. He was transformed into a trained killer,
and never once lost sight of his goal: revenge. But did he lose
sight of the only person that really mattered to him, his son,
Omar? At the very core of Fakhreddin's bold, nail-biting exploits
are his broken family, and broken heart, and his search for
redemption and a way home.
Meet Hatem el-Shenawi, a Muslim TV preacher who has won fame and
fortune through his show delivering Islam to the masses. Affable,
sharp-witted, and well-connected to the government and business
elite of Cairo, Shenawi seems at the top of his game. But when he
is entrusted with a dangerous secret, one that could tip the whole
country into chaos, the double-edged sword of his celebrity
threatens him with scandal and ruin as he is drawn deeper into
political intrigue and the dark underbelly of the state. Fast-paced
and brilliantly observed, The Televangelist takes us on a journey
into the corrupt nexus of power, money, media, and religious
performance that has dominated Egypt in recent years.
Mental Maps in the Era of Detente and the End of the Cold War
recreates the way in which the revolutionary changes of the last
phase of the Cold War were perceived by fifteen of its leading
figures in the West, East and developing world.
This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of
sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys
the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions
of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional
patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors
on pre-existing religious landscapes in a series of carefully
chosen locales: Cuzco, Edo, Geneva, Granada, Herat, Istanbul,
Jerusalem, Kanchipuram, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, and Rome. Some
chapters hone in on the process of imposing novel religious
beliefs, while others focus on how vestiges of displaced faiths
endured. The intersection of sacred landscapes with political
power, the world of ritual, and the expression of broader cultural
and social identity are also examined. Crucially, the volume
reveals that the creation of sacred space frequently involved more
than religious buildings and was a work of historical imagination
and textual expression. While a book of contrasts as much as
comparisons, the volume demonstrates that vital questions about the
location of the sacred and its reification in the landscape were
posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.
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The Jesuits (Paperback)
Jonathan Wright
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R340
R302
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The Jesuits tells the fascinating, sprawling story of the most
provocative and prodigious religious order in Roman Catholic
history Over the course of five centuries, members of the Society
of Jesus have travelled as missionaries to every corner of the
globe, founding haciendas in Mexico, exploring the Mississippi and
Amazon rivers and serving Chinese emperors as map-makers, painters
and astronomers. These far-flung travels helped to establish their
influence on the political and social history of countless
countries over hundreds of years. The Jesuits accomplishments were
wide-ranging: as well as the predictable roll call of saints and
martyrs, the Society can also lay claim to the thirty-five craters
on the moon named for Jesuit scientists. Jesuits have been
pilloried and idolised on a scale unknown to members of any other
religious order - they have died the most horrible deaths and done
the most outlandish deeds. Whether they were loved or loathed, the
dramatic impact of the Society of Jesus could never be ignored. It
disrupted the certainties and hierarchies of the Roman Catholic
Church, transformed the intellectual, cultural and spiritual
landscapes of Europe, Asia and the Americas, and staked its claim
as a potent force in the classroom, the pulpit and the loftiest
bastions of political power. Though facing fresh crises and
controversies, today's Jesuits are still active in the worlds of
science and politics, education and devotion, playing their part in
the complex transformations of the modern Catholic church. Jonathan
Wright's fascinating study draws the reader into a gripping tale of
myth and counter-myth, of adoration and banishment, of
extraordinary achievements and spectacular failures. Contained
within the Jesuits' rise, fall and rebirth are the successive
chapters of Discovery, Reformation, Enlightenment and Revolution
that have shaped our modern world.
In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first
looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25
January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind
popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the
downs) of the Revolution: the causes of rising hopes and
expectations, mingled with successive disappointments, sometimes
verging on despair, not least in the case of the presidential
elections, when the Egyptian people were invited to choose between
a rock and a hard place. This is followed by an outline of a
possible brighter future for Egypt, based on a more balanced and
faster growing economy, and a more democratic and equitable
society, within a truly independent, modern, and secular
state.
The story of what happened to the 2011 Revolution may be a sad one,
but if viewed within the larger context of Egypt's economic and
social developments of the last century, on which the author's
previous books threw very useful light, it can be regarded as one
important step forward toward a much better future.
Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when
a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified
him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began
a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other
men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypt's gay
community. Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness, Hani
writes down the events of his life-his first sexual desires, his
relationship with his mother, his marriage of convenience, and his
passion for Abdel Aziz, the only man he ever truly loved. In the
Spider's Room is a sensitive and courageous account of life as a
gay man in Egypt.
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Here Is a Body (Hardcover)
Basma Abdel Aziz; Translated by Jonathan Wright
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R1,496
Discovery Miles 14 960
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God 99 (Paperback)
Hassan Blasim; Translated by Jonathan Wright
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R331
R303
Discovery Miles 3 030
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Chess-playing people-traffickers, suicidal photographers, absurdist
sound sculptors, cat-loving rebel sympathisers, murderous
storytellers... The characters in Hassan Blasim's debut novel are
not the inventions of a wild imagination, but real-life refugees
and people whose lives have been devastated by war. Interviewed by
Hassan Owl, an aspiring Iraq-born writer, they become the subjects
of an online art project, a blog that blurs the boundaries between
fiction and autobiography, reportage and the novel. Framed by an
email correspondence with the mysterious Alia, a translator of the
Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran, the project leads us through the
bars, brothels and bathhouses of Hassan's past and present in a
journey of trauma, violence, identity and desire. Taking its
conceit from the Islamic tradition that says God has 99 names, the
novel trains a kaleidoscopic lens on the multiplicity of
experiences behind Europe's so-called 'migrant crisis', and asks
how those who have been displaced might find themselves again.
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The 100 Best Arabic Novels (Paperback)
Balkis Sharara, Hayat Sharara, Ahmed Morsi; Edited by Samuel Shimon; Series edited by Samuel Shimon; Translated by …
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R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
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Sudanese Literature Today (Paperback)
Hammour Ziada, Ahmad Al-Malik, Emad Blake; Edited by Samuel Shimon; Translated by John Peate, …
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R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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The Iraqi Christ (Paperback)
Hassan Blasim; Translated by Jonathan Wright
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R336
R304
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From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim’s
stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the
all-too-real. Taking his cues from Kafka, his prose shines a
dazzling light into the dark absurdities of Iraq’s recent past
and the torments of its countless refugees. The subject of this,
his second collection, is primarily trauma and the curious
strategies human beings adopt to process it (including, of course,
fiction). The result is a masterclass in metaphor – a new kind of
story-telling, forged in the crucible of war, and just as shocking.
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present-destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes-in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.
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Azazeel (Paperback, Main)
Youssef Ziedan; Translated by Jonathan Wright
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R312
R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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Set in the 5th century AD, Azazeel is the exquisitely crafted tale
of a Coptic monk's journey from Upper Egypt to Alexandria and then
Syria during a time of massive upheaval in the early Church. Winner
of the Arab Booker Prize, Azazeel highlights how the history of our
civilization has been warped by greed and avarice since its very
beginnings and how one man's beliefs are challenged not only by the
malice of the devil, but by the corruption with the early Church.
In sparse and often sparkling prose that reflects the arid beauty
of the Syrian landscape, Azazeel is a novel that forces us to
re-think many of our long-held beliefs and invites us to rediscover
a lost history.
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Alaa al-Deeb, A writer apart (Paperback)
Alaa Al-Deeb, Safi Said, Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah; Edited by Samuel Shimon; Translated by Jonathan Wright, …
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R242
Discovery Miles 2 420
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