Aunt Safiyya and the monestary

Informationen zum Autor Bahaa' Taher ! who lives in Geneva! has written three novels and several collections of short stories. This novel! his most recent! is the first to appear in English. Barbara Romaine teaches Arabic at the College of William and Mary. Klappentext "Taher is by far the best and most original contemporary Egyptian writer."-Muhammad Siddiq! University of California! Berkeley "It is a compelling and fascinating book! written in a direct and terse style by a writer who paid attention to his world and saw its limitations clearly but who remembers it with nostalgia and affection."-Segno Sette Zusammenfassung A novel that tells the story of a young Muslim who, when his life is threatened, finds sanctuary in a community of Coptic monks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation Glossary Introduction Chapter One: The Miqaddis Bishai Chapter Two: Aunt Safiyya Chapter Three: The Outlaws Chapter Four: Al-naksa Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: , TAHER, Bahaa Taher, Bahaa' Taher, Bahaa&apos Taher
• Assisted by: Barbara Romaine (Translation), Romaine Barbara (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.1996
• EAN: 9780520200753
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20075-3
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Literature of the Middle East; Literature of the Middle East
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary