Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders) (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Aslan, Reza

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring marvelous translations of works from countries as diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, Tablet and Pen finally endows twentieth-century Middle Eastern literature with a primacy in the English language that it much deserves. Edited by Reza Aslan, this groundbreaking volume features new translations of stories and poems, essays and memoirs from Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu.

This landmark collection of writings from the modern Middle East reminds us of the region's magnificent and proud literary tradition. That would be gift enough. But the powerful voices within these pages also guide us past clichéd perceptions of the region as a hotbed for militants and extremists and bring to life the hopes, aspirations, and strugglesindeed the common humanityof one of the world's most diverse and fascinating regions. Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

INCLUDES THE WRITINGS OF:
Kahlil Gibran, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nâzim Hikmet, Ismat Chughtai, Muhammad Iqbal, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Forugh Farrokhzad, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Yasar Kemal, Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis, Ahmad Shamloo, Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393080704
• Artikelnr.: 59592898