Mohamed El-Bisatie

Hunger

An Egyptian Novel

Buch

Episodic in form, this novel deals with a family-Zaghloul the layabout father, Sakeena the long-suffering wife, and two young boys. The central theme of the book is hunger: the hunger of not knowing where one's next meal is coming from, and the universal hunger for sex and love. Sakeena's life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily loaves of bread that will stave off starvation. Labor-shy Zaghloul works on and off at one of the village's cafés, but prefers to spend his time listening in on conversations about subjects such as politics.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Johnson-Davies, Denys (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-977-416-680-8
EAN: 9789774166808
Produktnummer: 16720116
Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 124 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.2 cm x D1.1 cm 160 g
Gewicht: 160

Über den Autor

Mohamed El-Bisatie (1937-2012) was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, including A Last Glass of Tea (AUC Press, 1994), Houses behind the Trees (AUC Press, 1997), Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press, 2004), and Over the Bridge (AUC Press, 2006). He was awarded the prestigious Oweiss Prize in 2001.Denys Johnson-Davies has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008), The Essential Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 2009), and The Essential Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011). He was described by Edward Said as the leading Arabic-English translator of our time. Johnson-Davies received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.