A Tunisian tale / Hassouna Mosbahi ; translated by Max Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miṣbāḥī, Ḥassūnah.

Contributor:

Weiss, Max, 1977-

Series:

Modern Arabic literature

Standardized Title:

Ḥikāyah tūnisīyah. English

حكاية تونسية. إنجليزي http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012058272

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic fiction.

Arabic fiction--Translations into English.

Arabic fiction--Translations from Arabic.

Tunis (Tunisia)--Fiction.

Tunis (Tunisia).

Arabic literature--Tunisia.

Arabic literature.

Tunisia.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2011.

Language Note:

In English; translated from Arabic.

Summary:

After ne'er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother's weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takes matters into his own hands and commits an unspeakable crime. An imaginative and disturbing novel told from the alternating viewpoints of this unrepentant sociopath, as he sits and fumes on death row but willingly guides us through his juvenile exploits and twisted memories, and his murdered mother, who calmly gives an account of her interrupted life from beyond the grave, A Tunisian Tale introduces the narrative talents of Hassouna Mosbahi to an English-language audience for the first time, as he confronts both taboos of Tunisian society and the boundaries of conventional storytelling.

Notes:

Novel.

ISBN:

9789774164804

9774164806

OCLC:

730413864