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Beta Thalassemia (Hardcover): Marwa Zakaria, Tamer Hassan Beta Thalassemia (Hardcover)
Marwa Zakaria, Tamer Hassan
R3,464 R3,236 Discovery Miles 32 360 Save R228 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sour Grapes (Paperback): Zakaria Tamer Sour Grapes (Paperback)
Zakaria Tamer; Translated by Alessandro Columbu, Mireia Costa Capallera
R436 R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Save R83 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

Breaking Knees (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Zakaria Tamer Breaking Knees (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Zakaria Tamer
R342 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R64 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration. Tamer's stories explore taboos and power relations, bringing together religion, politics and sexuality (often all at once) and implying that these forms of oppression are connected. An assault is deflected when the victim responds enthusiastically; a woman is spared stoning because the streets have no cobbles, and her neighbours cannot afford any; A comatose man awakens after years to find the regime unchanged, and tries to escape back into the coma; a newborn baby curses the hospital staff that delivers him, and when his mother tries to quiet him, retorts: 'You're talking like our leaders!'; a man is warned by two apples not to eat them, and anxiously questions them about their political connections. Unsentimental and brilliantly compressed, these sixty-three stories are the work of a virtuoso, and translator Ibrahim Muhawi has found exactly the right deadpan style with which to express them.

The Book of Damascus - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback): Zaher Omareen The Book of Damascus - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)
Zaher Omareen; Foreword by Allesandro Collumbu; Zakaria Tamer, Ibrahim Samuel
R297 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R28 (9%) Out of stock
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