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Earth weeps, Saturn laughs / Abdulaziz Al Farsi, translated by Nancy Roberts.
Van Pelt Library PJ7910.L53 E37 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fārisī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- v, 229 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- As the full moon listened in, Walad Sulaymi said, "...Thirty years ago I heard my grandfather say to my father (God have mercy on them both), 'If God allows a country to be chastised, He causes everyone who has left it to come back.' So here you are again, and with your return, that completes the number of those who left the village and have come back. Mark my words: the chastisement will descend soon." Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Khalid Bakhit 1
- The One-Line Song 1
- A Billion Years of Passion 4
- The Call to Prayer Duo 11
- Mihyan ibn Khalaf 21
- The Dream's Eyelids, the Fluttering of Time 21
- The Awaited Trial Council 25
- Ayda 32
- Passing before the Lovesick Balconies 32
- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha 39
- Some Coups Are an Existential Necessity 39
- The Fatiha of the Gorged Bellies 45
- Walad Sulaymi 52
- Dreams Are Canvases That Capture Many a Ravine 52
- Mihyan ibn Khalaf 57
- The Flood of Death, the Flood of Birth 57
- Khadim Walad al-Sayl 64
- Son of All, Beloved of No One 64
- The Illustrious Marketplace 68
- Here's Bangladesh 72
- Khalid Bakhit 80
- Running Away from a Dead Man 80
- Epiphanies in the Presence of the Saturnine 85
- The Sanctity of the Dead 92
- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha 99
- No to Imports! 99
- The Saturnine Poet 103
- Games That Ever End 103
- AThousand and One Ruses 109
- Let Thy Heart Be a Cloud 115
- Ayda 122
- Waiting 122
- Spirits That Are Bound to Meet 125
- Walad Sulaymi 133
- The Strange Dawn 133
- History Is a Failed Thief 137
- Khalid Bakhit 145
- The Messages Are for Me Alone 145
- The Warning 149
- Mihyan ibn Khalaf 152
- How Zealously the Wind Guards the Mud 152
- In Absence There Is Also Experimentation 157
- Between the Two Calms, a Storm...Between the Two Storms, a Calm! 162
- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha 168
- Modernity May Invade the Leadership 168
- Khalid Bakhit 173
- Footsteps in the Dark 173
- On Our Shoulders We Carried Our Fates, the Fates No Forehead Could Bear 178
- Walad Sulaymi 187
- Council of Silence 187
- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha 191
- The Night When Daytime Paid Us a Visit 191
- Khadim Walad al-Sayl 195
- O Sorrow, Wring Us Dry! 195
- Walad Sulaymi 199
- The Prayer of the Fearful 199
- Khalid Bakhit 203
- The Messages Are for You Alone 203
- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha 208
- The Dead Can Sometimes Do Harm 208
- Khadim Walad al-Sayl 213
- A Predawn Tryst 213
- Mihyan ibn Khalaf 219
- At Dawn Stories Are Born 219.
- ISBN:
- 977416590X
- 9789774165900
- OCLC:
- 809978150
- Publisher Number:
- 99954746209
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