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Catalogue of a Private Life

Shatwa Binshatwan

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  • 96 sidor
  • 2021
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers.

A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has been softly twisted several degrees.

Najwa Bin Shatwan navigates the tensions between loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret, and tenderness and cruelty to weave a portrait of family, war and nation against a stark backdrop of the completely absurd.

  • Författare: Shatwa Binshatwan
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781912868728
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 96
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-11-26
  • Översättare: Sawad Hussain
  • Förlag: Dedalus Ltd