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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 179
Utgivningsdatum: 2016-01-15
Förlag: University of Texas Press
Översättare: William M Hutchins
Illustrationer: black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
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Komponenter: Paperback
ISBN: 9781477308103

A Portal in Space

Name: A Portal in Space
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Author: Mahmoud Saeed
ISBN: 9781477308103

av Mahmoud Saeed

Häftad, Engelska, 2016-01-15

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A Portal in Space, set in Basra, Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq War (19801988), follows the lives of Anwar, a newly minted architect, and the other members of his affluent family as they attempt to maintain a sense of normality during the frequent bombing attacks from Iran. When Anwar joins the Iraqi army and then goes missing in action, his family struggles to cope with uncertainty over his fate. His mother falls into depression and secludes herself in the family home, while his father shifts his attention from his duties as a judge to the weekly pilgrimage to Baghdad seeking information on his sonand to Zahra, the young widow he meets there. Emotionally engaging, A Portal in Space is a wry, wise tale of human beings striving to retain their humanity during a war that is anything but humane. Mahmoud Saeed succeeds brilliantly in bringing the sights and sounds of Iraq to life on the pagewhether in a bunker on the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War or in the parlor of a fortune-teller in Baghdad. As Zahra says of the novel she is writing: It is a normal novel that contains love, war, life, deceit, and death.

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MAHMOUD SAEED, a prominent and prolific Iraqi novelist, has written more than twenty novels and short story collections. He lived in Iraq until 1985, suffering imprisonment and the banning of some of his novels. WILLIAM M. HUTCHINS, a professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Appalachian State University, has translated numerous works of Arabic literature into English, including four novels by the Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz, as well as several novels by the Tuareg writer Ibrahim al-Koni.

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