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The Wiles of men and other stories / Salwa Bakr ; translation by Denys Johnson-Davies ; introductions by Denys Johnson-Davies and Barbara Harlow.
LIBRA - Special PJ7816.A466 A24 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakr, Salwá.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bakr, Salwá--Translations into English.
- Bakr, Salwá.
- Women--Egypt--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 178 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First University of Texas Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- Set among the poor of contemporary Cairo, these thirteen stories and one short novella tell of women struggling to provide themselves with the basic necessities of life. They explore the limits of self-awareness, the pressures to conform, and some of the strange paths to escape that women resort to in a conservative society shot through with social and sexual prejudice and preconceptions. Salwa Bakr contends that Arabic literature has been the domain of men and that it is the task of women writing in Arabic to redress the balance. One of Egypt's most interesting women writers of fiction, she is an emerging talent of great power. Her published oeuvre includes three story collections, a novel, and many popular articles. This translation of The Wiles of Men and Other Stories was first published in hardcover by Quartet Books of Great Britain in 1992.
- Contents:
- The wiles of men
- Thirty-one beautiful green trees
- The sorrows of Desdemona
- A small white mouse
- Dotty Noona
- An occasion for happiness
- That beautiful undiscovered voice
- The smile of death
- The monkey trainer
- Filching of a soul
- What happened to Pussy
- The bird in his cage
- A short bus ride
- The Shrine of Atia
- a novella.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxii).
- ISBN:
- 0292708009
- 9780292708006
- OCLC:
- 28212246
- Online:
- Publisher description
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