Mister N / Najwa Barakat ; translated by Luke Leafgren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barakāt, Najwá, author.

Contributor:

Leafgren, Luke, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Mistir nūn. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Beirut (Lebanon)--Fiction.

Beirut (Lebanon).

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

259 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Mr. N

Place of Publication:

Sheffield : And Other Stories, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Arabic.

Summary:

"Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel -- he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: poverty, violence and fear. How is anyone supposed to write deathless prose in such circumstances? Let alone an old man like Mister N, whose life and memories have become scattered, whose family regards him as an embarrassment, and whose neighbors torment him with their noise, dinner invitations, and inconvenient suicides. Comical and tragic by turns, his misadventures climax in the arrival in what Mister N had supposed to be his "real life" of a character from one of his early novels -- a vicious militiaman. Now, does the old writer need to arm himself... or just seek psychiatric help?"--Amazon.com

Notes:

"Originally published in Arabic in 2019"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Barakāt, Najwá. Mister N.

ISBN:

9781913505325

1913505324

OCLC:

1267687229

Publisher Number:

99991332784