Rites of Assent - Two Novellas

Interweaves a young village boy's thoughts and the spiritual, sensual, and sometimes macabre recollections of a dead man newly lowered into his burial place. Memories and experiences mingle with images of the afterlife, as the deceased is judged by the Muslim angels of death and the boy suddenly hears that his grandfather has died.

Summary

Interweaves a young village boy's thoughts and the spiritual, sensual, and sometimes macabre recollections of a dead man newly lowered into his burial place. Memories and experiences mingle with images of the afterlife, as the deceased is judged by the Muslim angels of death and the boy suddenly hears that his grandfather has died.

Product details

• Authors: Abd al-Hakim Qasim, Abdal Qasim
• Assisted by: Peter Theroux (Translation)
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.1995
• EAN: 9781566393546
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-354-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 245 g
• Series: Border Lines; Border Lines: Works in Translation; Border Lines; Border Lines: Works in Translation
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature