Homecoming : sixty years of Egyptian short stories /
Home coming : sixty years of Egyptian short stories Sixty years of Egyptian short stories
selected and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.
- Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.
- vii, 359 p ; 23 cm.
Includes glossary of terms.
Secrets / Grandad Hasan / Homecoming / In the place for prayers / At the level crossing / Sylvia / The report of Mrs. R. concerning the last day of the week / Drops of lemon juice / The palm tree my aunt loved / Sundown / A small white mouse / The days of the black cat / The room next door / A house for my children / Hashish steals the night / Eyes staring into space / The dancer / A place under the dome / The story of black knight / Red and white / The accusation / A dog / The old clothes man / A visit / Put out those lights / Cairo is a small city / The girls and the rooster / Mother of the destitute / The old man / Across three beds in the afternoon / The chair carrier / Undoing the spell / Birds' footsteps in the sand / The man who saw the sole of his left foot in a cracked mirror / A murder long ago / The arrival / The guard's chair / A lover / The man with the mustache and the bow tie / The son, the father, and the donkey / Naked he went off / The whistle / The dental crown / Another evening at the club / Paradise itself / For the love of God / The snooper / The lost suitcase / The clock / The man and the farm / The mother / The country boy / Useless cats / The house of the spinster / Abu Arab / Thirst / The picture / Ibrahim Abdel Meguid -- Yahya Taher Abdullah -- Yusuf Abu Rayya -- Mohammed Afifi -- Abbas Ahmed -- Ahmed Alaidy -- Radwa Ashour -- Ibrahim Aslan -- Hana Atia -- Shukri Ayyad -- Salwa Bakr -- Rehab Bassam -- Mohamed El-Bisatie -- Mahmoud Diab -- Shehata al-Erian -- Mansoura Ez Eldin -- Shawqi Faheem -- Abdul Rahman Fahmy -- Hosam Fakhr -- Ibrahim Farghali -- Suleiman Fayyad -- Hamdy el-Gazzar -- Fathy Ghanem -- Gamal al-Ghitani -- Yousef Gohar -- Nabil Gorgy -- Abdou Gubeir -- Yahya Hakki -- Gamil Atia Ibrahim -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Yusuf Idris -- Said al-Kafrawi -- Edwar al-Kharrat -- Lutfi al-Khouli -- Naguib Mahfouz -- Mohamed Makhzangi -- Mohamed Makhzangi -- Mohamed Makhzangi -- Mohamed Makhzangi -- Sabri Moussa -- Mohamed Mustagab -- Abd al-Hakim Qasim -- Youssef Rakha -- Alifa Rifaat -- Mahmoud al-Saadani -- Abdul Hamid Gouda al-Sahhar -- Mekkawi Said -- Abdel-Moneim Selim -- Khairy Shalaby -- Yusuf Sharouni -- Ibrahim Shukrallah -- Yusuf al-Sibai -- Bahaa Taher -- Sahar Tawfiq -- Mahmoud Teymour -- Mahmoud Al-Wardani -- Latifa al-Zayyat.
Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time" arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time. He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.
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Short stories.--Egyptian Short stories, Arabic--Egypt--Translations into English. Arabic fiction--Egypt--Translations into English.