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A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by
award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for
Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King’s
Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as
women’s agency, the decline of collective life and imagination
under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption
on daily life. In “The Memoir of Cinderella’s Shoes,”
Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to
take justice into her own hands. In “Tell Me About Surrealism,”
an art history professor’s writing assignment reveals the
slipperiness of storytelling, and in “Merry Christmas,” the
realities of apartheid interfere with one family’s celebration.
Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates—with brevity
and inventiveness—themes relevant to both the particularities of
life in the Arab world and life outside it.
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