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In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act ... This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act ... This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring novelist and construction laborer of the lowest order, leads us down a fractured path of reminiscence in his quest for purpose and identity in a world where the old orders and traditions are powerless to help. Bawdy and wistful, tragicomic and bitter, his stories loop and repeat, crackling with the fr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781617974427 1617974420 9781617970641 1617970646 |