| Three Tales of Love and Death Contributor(s): Kouloub, Out El (Author), Atiya, Nayra (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0815606273 ISBN-13: 9780815606277 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2000 Annotation: First published in 1940, but translated here for the first time, this work comprises three poignant novellas of love and death in the Egyptian countryside. The heroines of Out El Kouloub's Three Tales tells the stories of Nazira, Zahira, and Zarifa, whose narratives afford the rest of the world a glimpse of the "veiled" culture from an insider's perspective. Throughout the book, Out El Kouloub takes the reader to a variety of colorful locations -- through streets, bazaars, holy sites and homes of Cairo. Her stories take her characters into the intimate geographical and psychological space of different classes and upbringings that make up Egyptian life. This is an Egypt described not by an orientalist but by an Egyptian woman who has either lived or observed the experiences that form the fabric of her written work. Three Tales is a companion volume to Ramza and Zanouba, also by Out El Kouloub, and each translated from the French by Nayra Atiya. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99086342 |
| Series: Middle East Literature in Translation |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.73" W x 8.76" (0.72 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1940 and now translated into English, this work comrises three novellas of love and death in the Eygptian countryside. The stories offer the reader an insight into the intimate geographical and psychological spaces of the different Eygptian classes and upbringings. |