A dog with no tail / Hamdi Abu Golayyel ; translated by Robin Moger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abū Julayyil, Ḥamdī.

Contributor:

Moger, Robin.

Series:

Modern Arabic literature

Standardized Title:

Fāʻil. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

152 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2009.

Summary:

"In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act... This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring novelist and construction laborer of the lowest order, leads us down a fractured path of reminiscence in his quest for purpose and identity in a world where the old orders and traditions are powerless to help. Bawdy and wistful, tragicomic and bitter, his stories loop and repeat, crackling with the frictive energy of colliding worlds and linguistic registers. These are the tales of Cairo's new Bedouin, men not settled by the state but permanently uprooted by it. Like their lives, their stories are dislocated and unplotted, mapping out their quest for meaning in the very act of placing brick on brick and word on word"--Jacket flap.

Notes:

Translation of: al-Fāʻil.

Novel.

ISBN:

9789774163012

977416301X

OCLC:

489441153

Publisher Number:

99941843798