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Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs An Omani Novel.
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Al Farsi, Abdulaziz. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs |h [electronic resource] : |b An Omani Novel. |
| 260 | |a London : |b The American University in Cairo Press, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (160 p.) | ||
| 500 | |a Description based upon print version of record. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Journeying Toward the Tales -- Khalid Bakhit -- The One-Line Song -- A Billion Years of Passion -- The Call to Prayer Duo -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- The Dream's Eyelids, the Fluttering of Time -- The Awaited Trial Council -- Ayda -- Passing before the Lovesick Balconies -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- Some Coups Are an Existential Necessity -- The Fatiha of the Gorged Bellies -- Walad Sulaymi -- Dreams Are Canvases That Capture Many a Ravine -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- The Flood of Death, the Flood of Birth -- Khadim Walad al-Sayl | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Son of All, Beloved of No One -- The Illustrious Marketplace -- Here's Bangladesh -- Khalid Bakhit -- Running Away from a Dead Man -- Epiphanies in the Presence of the Saturnine -- The Sanctity of the Dead -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- No to Imports! -- The Saturnine Poet -- Games That Ever End -- A Thousand and One Ruses -- Let Thy Heart Be a Cloud -- Ayda -- Waiting -- Spirits That Are Bound to Meet -- Walad Sulaymi -- The Strange Dawn -- History Is a Failed Thief -- Khalid Bakhit -- The Messages Are for Me Alone -- The Warning -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- How Zealously the Wind Guards the Mud | |
| 505 | 8 | |a In Absence There Is Also Experimentation -- Between the Two Calms, a Storm . . . Between the Two Storms, a Calm! -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- Modernity May Invade the Leadership -- Khalid Bakhit -- Footsteps in the Dark -- On Our Shoulders We Carried Our Fates, the Fates No Forehead Could Bear -- Walad Sulaymi -- Council of Silence -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- The Night When Daytime Paid Us a Visit -- Khadim Walad al-Sayl -- O Sorrow, Wring Us Dry! -- Walad Sulaymi -- The Prayer of the Fearful -- Khalid Bakhit -- The Messages Are for You Alone -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Dead Can Sometimes Do Harm -- Khadim Walad al-Sayl -- A Predawn Tryst -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- At Dawn Stories Are Born -- Glossary | |
| 520 | |a Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked by his flight from a painful love affair, coincides with events that reveal the force of long-established traditions that have a stranglehold on the town: from racial prejudice, to religious bigotry, to ossified patterns of leadership. Khalid's awakening and transformation are catalyzed by his encounter. | ||
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| 655 | 7 | |a Translations |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Roberts, Nancy. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Al Farsi, Abdulaziz |t Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs : An Omani Novel |d London : The American University in Cairo Press,c2013 |
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