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Beirut 39 : new writing from the Arab world / edited by
Samuel
Shimon
; with a preface by Hanan al-Shaykh.
Bloomsbury, c2010.
Call #:
FICTION BEI
ISBN:
9781608192021 (trade pbk)
Alternate title:
Beirut thirty-nine
New writing from the Arab world
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
xiv, 304 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Collection of new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under forty.
"A Hay Festival project"--Cover.
Chiefly translated from Arabic.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Preface / Hanan al-Shaykh -- Judges' announcement -- Introduction / Abdo Wazen -- Editor's note -- Bedouins on the edge / Abdelaziz Errachidi -- Trip to the slaughterhouse / Abdelkader Benali -- Wounded man / Abdellah Taia -- Amazigh / Abderrahim Elkhassar -- Skin of shadow / Abderrazak Boukebba -- Twentieth terrorist / Abdullah Thabit -- At the post office / Adania Shibli -- Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmad Saadawi -- Eight poems from The Utopia of Cemeteries / Ahmad Yamani -- Coexistence / Ala Hlehel -- Three poems / Bassim al Ansar -- Two stories / Dima Wannous -- Mimouna / Faiza Guene -- Three stories / Hala Kawtharani -- Secret pleasures / Hamdy el Gazzar -- Last hanging poem / Hussein al Abri -- Three poems / Hussein Jelaad -- Layla's belly / Hyam Yared -- Who are you carrying that rose for? / Islam Samhan -- Geology of the I' in the book of J / Joumana Haddad -- Scalpel / Kamel Riahi -- Threshold of ashes / Mansour El Souwaim -- Path to madness / Mansoura Ez Eldin -- Haneef from Glasgow / Mohammad Hassan Alwan -- Boat that dislikes the riverbank / Mohammad Salah al Azab -- Like the blade of a knife / Nagat Ali -- Pools and the piano / Najwa Binshatwan -- Six poems / Najwan Darwish -- Thirteen poems / Nazem El Sayed -- America / Rabee Jaber -- Story of my building / Randa Jarrar -- Guardians of the air / Rosa Yassin Hassan -- Scent of cinnamon / Samar Yezbek -- Nine poems / Samer Abou Hawwash -- Crime in Mataeem Street / Wajdi al Ahdal -- Raven's leg / Yahya Amqassim -- Two stories / Yassin Adnan -- Suicide 20, or The Hakimi Maqama / Youssef Rakha -- Nine poems / Zaki Baydoun -- Notes on the text -- Notes on the authors -- Notes on the translators.
Summary:
"Beirut 39 presents the best work of young Arab writers from around the world. Selected by a panel of eminent Arab critics, writers and editors, in a competition sponsored by the Hay Festival, these thirty-nine emerging talents are all under the age of thirty-nine, and hail from sixteen different countries-from Morocco to Oman, from Sudan to the Netherlands and France. Their fiction and poetry collected here represents the vibrancy and diversity of Arab literature today."--Publisher.
Genre:
Arabic fiction -- Translations into English.
Short stories, Arabic.
Short stories.
Other authors:
Shimon
,
Samuel
,
1956-
Hay Festival.
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