They Die Strangers

They Die Strangers, a novella and thirteen short stories, is the first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English. Abdul-Wali died tragically in an aviation accident, and his stories were collected after his death by the translators Abubaker Bagader and Deborah Akers.

Abdul-Wali was born in Ethiopia of Arab Yemeni parents. His stories, filled with nostalgia and the bitterness of exile, deal with the common experiences of Yemenis like himself who are caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labor migration. His characters include women left behind, children raised without fathers, and men returning home after years of absence. He explores the human condition through the eyes of the oppressed and disenfranchised and is particularly sympathetic to the plight of women.

List of contents

• Introduction
• The Land, Salma
• The Road to Asmara
• The Slap
• The Color of Rain
• The Saturday Market
• The Last Class
• Abu Rupee
• Nothing New
• Ya Khabiir
• A Woman
• China Road
• The Ghoul
• Brother, Are You Going to Fight Them All?
• They Die Strangers

About the author

By Mohammad Abdul-Wali

Summary

The first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English

Product details

• Authors: Muhammad Abd Al-Wali, Mohammad Abdul-Wali, Abu Bakr Ahmad Baqadir
• Assisted by: Deborah Akers (Translation), Abubaker Bagader (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9780292705081
• ISBN: 978-0-292-70508-1
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 196 g
• Series: Modern Middle East Literature; CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation; Modern Middle East Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature