Catalogue of a Private Life

Short Stories

von Najwa Bin Shatwan

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has been softly twisted several degrees. Najwa Bin Shatwan navigates the tensions between loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret, and tenderness and cruelty to weave a portrait of family, war and nation against a stark backdrop of the completely absurd.

• ISBN: 9781912868728
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2022
• Größe: 198 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Dedalus
• Übersetzung: Sawad Hussain