Points of the Compass: Stories
University of Arkansas Press, 1995
Paper: 978-1-55728-384-9 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-311-1 | Cloth: 978-1-55728-385-6
Library of Congress Classification PJ7864.A478A6 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.736
Paper: 978-1-55728-384-9 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-311-1 | Cloth: 978-1-55728-385-6
Library of Congress Classification PJ7864.A478A6 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.736
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection of short stories, recipient of a 1994 University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, presents one of Egypt’s most innovative contemporary fiction writers. In her first collection published in English, Sahar Tawfiq explores the consciousnesses of young women alienated from their surroundings in today’s rapidly changing Egyptian society. In questioning the place of long-powerful myths and beliefs, she is in the forefront of writers examining the legacy of the Pharaohs as it permeates current Egyptian identities and practices, especially in the countryside. Her characters are shaped by journeys through modern social and economic trials and the ageless troubles of the human spirit and heart.
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