The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction

By: Denys Johnson-Davies

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Paperback | 17 October 2006 | Edition Number 1

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A dazzling anthology of modern Arabic fiction from across the Arab world, edited by the foremost Arabic-to-English translator of our time. An Anchor Books Original.

This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.

Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said "the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time," this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz's literary sons and daughters. Among the Egyptian writers who laid the foundation for the Arabic literary renaissance are the great Tawfik al-Hakim; the short story pioneer Mahmoud Teymour; and Yusuf Idris, who embraced Egypt's vibrant spoken vernacular. An excerpt from the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North, one of the Arab world's finest, appears alongside the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Koni's tales of the Tuaregs of North Africa, the Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayir's masterly story "Clocks Like Horses," and the work of such women writers as Lebanon's Hanan al-Shaykh and Morocco's Leila Abouzeid.

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Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories Modern & Contemporary Fiction Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Introduction	p. xiii
from No One Sleeps in Alexandria	p. 3
Ya Khabiir	p. 9
Rhythms in Slow Time	p. 12
The Discontented	p. 16
Dreams Seen by a Blind Boy	p. 19
from Dongola	p. 21
The Doctor's Prescription	p. 23
I Saw the Date-Palms	p. 25
The Little Girl in Green	p. 33
from Nile Sparrows	p. 37
from The Yacoubian Building	p. 39
from A Land of Stone and Thyme	p. 45
from A Certain Woman	p. 49
Dotty Noona	p. 53
from The Golden Chariot	p. 59
from The Tiller of Waters	p. 63
Life by Installments	p. 66
Drought	p. 73
from Clamor of the Lake	p. 75
Flower Crazy	p. 78
from Dear Mr. Kawabata	p. 85
from The Hostage	p. 87
Apples of Paradise	p. 89
from Gardens of the Night	p. 98
Sunset	p. 102
from Zayni Barakat	p. 107
Cairo Is a Small City	p. 111
Have You Seen Alexandria Station?	p. 113
At Last the Almond Blossomed	p. 116
from Diary of a Country Prosecutor	p. 126
from The Lamp of Umm Hashim	p. 134
A Story from Prison	p. 136
from The Net	p. 152
from The Polymath	p. 157
from A Man of Letters	p. 161
The Old Man	p. 171
from Zaat	p. 173
from The Committee	p. 176
from Sabriya: Damascus Bitter Sweet	p. 179
House of Flesh	p. 181
from City of Love and Ashes	p. 189
The Dead Afternoon	p. 194
from In Search of Walid Masoud	p. 198
The Hill of Gypsies	p. 207
The Slave Fort	p. 217
from Men in the Sun	p. 222
from Wild Thorns	p. 232
from Rama and the Dragon	p. 235
from A Sky So Close	p. 248
from The Journey of Little Gandhi	p. 254
Clocks Like Horses	p. 258
from The Bleeding of the Stone	p. 271
The Ill-Omened Golden Bird	p. 277
The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish	p. 285
from Arabian Nights and Days	p. 292
from Palace Walk	p. 294
The Pilot	p. 299
Presence of the Absent Man	p. 301
from Fragments of Memory	p. 311
from Memory in the Flesh	p. 313
Benevolence	p. 316
from Endings	p. 319
Your Uncle Was a Poet	p. 324
I've Been Here Before	p. 327
A House Not Her Own	p. 330
from Prairies of Fever	p. 336
Nights of Musk	p. 339
Three Meaningless Tales	p. 349
The Whistle	p. 353
from Leaves of Narcissus	p. 356
An Incident in the Ghobashi Household	p. 360
She Has No Place in Paradise	p. 365
from Woman at Point Zero	p. 371
from Season of Migration to the North	p. 374
from Bandarshah	p. 379
The Cypriot Man	p. 385
A Gypsy without a Haven	p. 394
My Fellow Passenger	p. 404
Distant Seas	p. 409
The Clock	p. 411
The Persian Carpet	p. 414
from Beirut Blues	p. 419
from The Tent	p. 424
from Love in Exile	p. 427
from The Long Way Back	p. 430
A Summary of What Happened to Mohammed al-Mahmoudi	p. 433
from Dunyazad	p. 436
The Comedy of Death	p. 440
The Dream	p. 447
The Day Grandpa Came	p. 453
from The Earthquake	p. 459
from The Open Door	p. 462
Snake Hunting	p. 468
Acknowledgments	p. 475
Sources of Stories and Excerpts	p. 477
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