The hostage
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Zayd Muteeʻ Dammaj ; translated from the Arabic by May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley ; with introductions by Robert D. Burrowes and ʻAbd al-ʻAziz al-Maqalih ; preface by Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Series: [Emerging voices]
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Description: In the Yemen, a boy is taken hostage to assure the loyalty of his clan. He is made a houseboy in the imam's palace and falls in love with his daughter. The novel is set in the 1940s.
Notes: Series statement from jacket.