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The essential Yusuf Idris : masterpieces of the Egyptian short story / edited by Denys Johnson-Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Idrīs, Yūsuf
- Series:
- Modern Arabic literature
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- قصص قصيرة. إنجليزية. مختارات http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92095418
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Idrīs, Yūsuf.
- Short stories, Egyptian.
- Short stories, Arabic.
- Idrīs, Yūsuf--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Arabic--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Egyptian--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Short stories, Arabic.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- A selection of the most important works of Egypt's leading short story writer
- Contents:
- The cheapest nights
- You are everything to me
- The errand
- Hard up
- The funeral ceremony
- All on a summer's night
- The caller in the night
- The dreges of the city
- Did you have to turn on the light, Li-Li?
- Death from old age
- The shame
- His mother
- An Egyptian Mona Lisa
- The chair carrier
- Rings of burnished brass
- The Shaykh Shaykha
- It's not fair
- House of flesh
- Farahat's republic
- The greatest sin of all
- from City of love and ashes.
- ISBN:
- 9774162420
- 9789774162428
- OCLC:
- 444664383
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