The Heron

Ibrahim Aslan

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• One long winter night and the Cairo neighborhood of Kit Kat stands at a crossroads. Poised like herons fishing on the banks of the Nile, the character... Lees meer

Anubis

Ibrahim Al-Koni

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the... Lees meer

Blue Aubergine

Miral Al-Tahawy

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• Blue Aubergine tells the story of a young Egyptian woman, born in 1967, growing up in the wake of Egypt's defeat of that year, and maturing into woman... Lees meer

Clamor of the Lake

Mohamed El-Bisatie

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• Clamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat. Taciturn and enigmatic, he takes on a woman ... Lees meer

Final Night

Buthaina Al Nasiri

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is ... Lees meer

Memories of a Meltdown

Mohamed Makhzangi

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• Describes the days that followed the nuclear nightmare at Chernobyl from the author's perspective as both an outsider and a victim. Lees meer

Homecoming

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• "Johnson-Davies, a distinguished translator from Arabic, has produced a collection of nearly 60 Egyptian short stories that usefully adds to the growi... Lees meer

The Theocrat

Bensalem Himmich

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• The Theocrat takes as its subject one of Arab and Islamic history's most perplexing figures, al-Hakim bi-Amr Illah ("the ruler by order of God"), the ... Lees meer

Being Abbas El Abd

Ahmed Alaidy

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• "The millennial generation's most celebrated literary achievement."--Al-Ahram Weekly "The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance--an i... Lees meer

The Long Way Back

Fuad Al-Takarli

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• The Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisit... Lees meer

The Polymath

Bensalem Himmich

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE WINNER OF THE GRAND ATLAS AWARD This magnificent novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding... Lees meer

Nile Sparrows

Ibrahim Aslan

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• Set in the author's own Nile-side neighborhood of Warraq, Aslan's second novel, the first to be translated and published in English, chronicles the da... Lees meer

The Golden Chariot

Salwa Bakr

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• From her cell in a women's prison, Aziza decides to create a golden chariot to take her to heaven, where her wishes and dreams can be fulfilled. As sh... Lees meer

A Certain Woman

Hala El Badry

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• In this prize-winning novel, Nahid is a woman determined to go on a journey of self discovery and understanding. As we accompany her in her sometimes ... Lees meer

Black Magic

Hamdy El-Gazzar

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Arabic Literature (Paperback)
• As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. No... Lees meer