Shahrazad's Gift is a collection of linked short stories, set in an apartment building in contemporary Cairo, with a cast of flamboyant, unlikely characters, who seem to have stepped out of A Thousand and One Nights.
Shahrazad's Gift is a collection of linked short stories, set in an apartment building in contemporary Cairo, with a cast of flamboyant, unlikely characters, who seem to have stepped out of A Thousand and One Nights.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gretchen McCullough was raised in Harlingen Texas. After graduating from Brown University in 1984, she taught in Egypt, Turkey and Japan. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and was awarded a teaching Fulbright to Syria from 1997-1999. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Barcelona Review, Archipelago, National Public Radio, Story South, Guernica, The Common, The Millions, and the LA Review of Books. Translations in English and Arabic have been published in: Nizwa, Banipal, Brooklyn Rail in Translation, World Literature Today and Washington Square Review with Mohamed Metwalli. Her bi-lingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli was published in July 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo.
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The Wedding Guest 11 The Empty Flat Upstairs 25 A Little Honey and a Little Sunlight 31 Taken Hostage by the Ugly Duck 43 Fatma’s New Teeth 51 The Charm 66 Ice 82 Shahrazad’s Gift 101 Tiger 114 Pure Water Part I 125 Pure Water Part II—“On The Run” 140
The Wedding Guest 11 The Empty Flat Upstairs 25 A Little Honey and a Little Sunlight 31 Taken Hostage by the Ugly Duck 43 Fatma’s New Teeth 51 The Charm 66 Ice 82 Shahrazad’s Gift 101 Tiger 114 Pure Water Part I 125 Pure Water Part II—“On The Run” 140
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