A bed for the king's daughter / Shahla Ujayli ; translated by Sawad Hussain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻUjaylī, Shahlā, author.

Series:

Emerging voices from the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

History.

Syria.

Syria--History--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 62 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Austin : The University of Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women's agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In "The Memoir of Cinderella's Shoes" Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to take justice into her own hands. In "Tell Me About Surrealism", an art history professor's writing assignment reveals the slipperiness of storytelling, and in "Merry Christmas", the realities of apartheid interfere with one family's celebration. Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates with brevity and inventiveness themes relevant to both the particularities of life in the Arab world and life outside it.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Memoirs of Cinderella's Slipper

2. Christmas

3. Um Al-Ghayth

4. Dead Man's Hand

5. My Country, My Love

6. The Night the Building Collapsed

7. The Octopus

8. A Mother's Final Words

9. Precious Stones

10. Fainting

11. An Incident in Town

12. The Strangest Thing That Happened to me in 2010

13. Sitt Najmiyyah's House

14. Gun License

15. A Bed for the King's Daughter

16. Wishing Tree

17. Greek Discussions

18. Environmental Safety

19. Lilith

20. Kind Hearts

21. Successful Strikes.

ISBN:

9781477322284

1477322280

OCLC:

1235818968

Publisher Number:

99987522809