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Zakaria Tamer Sour Grapes (Paperback) Middle East Literature In Translation. Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq,Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Title: Sour Grapes. Further DetailsTitle: Sour Grapes Condition: New Description: Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, Sour Grapes is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tamer captures their everyday lives, weaving the attendant cruelties and ironies of living under an oppressive regime with the residents’ irreverence and small acts of defiance. Inspired by the heroines of Arab mythology, the women of al-Qaweyq navigate the patriarchal community with brash confidence and dark humor while the younger generation of children inherit a bitter cynicism from their fathers. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the collection’s title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the harvest.Considered a master of the short story, Zakaria Tamer is one of the Arab world’s most prominent and widely read writers. Columbu and Capallera’s fluid translation gives English readers access to Tamer’s original and provocative voice Author: Zakaria Tamer EAN: 9780815611547 Contributor: Alessandro Columbu (Translated by), Mireia Costa Capallera (Translated by) Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780815611547 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 203mm Item Length: 127mm Genre: Fiction ISBN-10: 0815611544 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Release Date: 08/01/2023 Translator: Alessandro Columbu, Mireia Costa Capallera Series: Middle East Literature In Translation Item Weight: 272g Type: Contemporary Fiction Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
