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Heads Ripe for Plucking - Rilegato

Al-wardani, Mahmoud

 
9789774161889: Heads Ripe for Plucking
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ISBN 10: 9774161882 ISBN 13: 9789774161889
Casa editrice: Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, 2008

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An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al-Wardani s novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one s head are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser s prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Mahmoud Al-Wardani, born in Cairo in 1950, is a writer and cultural journalist. He is the author of six novels and three collections of short stories.Hala Halim teaches at New York University. Her translation of Mohamed El-Bisatie s Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press, 2004) won an Egyptian State Incentive Award.

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Editore
Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9774161882
ISBN 13 
9789774161889
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
166
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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