Ahmed Naji

Using Life

Illustrator: Al Zorkany, Ayman / Übersetzer: Koerber, Benjamin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Internationally acclaimed Egyptian author Ahmed Naji won the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award after his imprisonment on charges of à â Å violating public moralsà â  with this dystopian novel of life in modern Cairo.

Produktdetails

• Emerging Voices from the Middle East
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781477314807
• ISBN-10: 1477314806
• Artikelnr.: 48064313

Autorenporträt

By Ahmed Naji, Illustrations by Ayman Al Zorkany, Translated by Benjamin Koerber

Inhaltsangabe

1. Translator’s Note
2. Chapter One
* Where Is the Graveyard of Music?
* The Quartets of Ibn Arus
3. Chapter Two
* Portrait of an Old Man in 6th of October
4. Chapter Three
* A Letter from Reem
* A Portrait of Mona May at Twenty
* A Flower in Full Bloom
* Shafi qa of Alexandria
* A Cocksucker’s Reprimand to His Fellow Cocksuckers
5. Chapter Four
* The Road of Passion
* The Animals of Cairo
* The Nile Meets Paprika
6. Chapter Five
* Night
* Revenge Has No Place in Modern Life (1)
7. Chapter Six
* Revenge Has No Place in Modern Life (2)
* Hefny Ahmed Hassan
* Concerning the Influence of the Past on the Future
8. Chapter Seven
* The Third Flower . . . Where Do I Put the Third Flower, Reem?
* Muhammad Taha
* Meeting the Doctor
* The Graveyard of Music
* Mind Control and Masturbation
* One of These Days I Shan’t Awake
9. Chapter Eight
10. Chapter Nine
* The Tree
11. Chapter Ten
* Author’s Acknowledgments