Mohammad Ali Taha's "A rose to Hafeeza's eyes" and other stories
By: translated by Jamal Assadi.
Contributors: Assadi, Jamal, 1960-
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781433103636
Subjects: Ṭāhā, Muḥammad ʻAlī, -- 1942- -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Other titles: "A rose to Hafeeza's eyes" and other stories
Description: "Mohammad Ali Taha is a well-known Palestinian writer residing in Galilee as an Israeli citizen. Despite his fame in the Arab world, his works are still unfamiliar to Western audiences. In this volume, translator Jamal Assadi has collected a selection of Taha's short stories, representing a variety of themes, styles, historical periods, contexts, settings, tones, languages, narrations, and characters, with the intent to help Taha enter what Edward Said calls "the large, many-windowed house of human culture as a whole." In his introduction, Assadi discusses the culture, traits, and manners of Taha's world, which provides the reader with a greater appreciation and understanding of the short stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A rose to Hafeeza's eyes; title: The boy who picked the sun; title: The dinosaur; title: The man who sold his mother; title: One night on riga's train; title: The birth; title: The bird and the cage; title: The wild honey; title: The legislation of sheikh Mal-Allah; title: The freak; title: The fear; title: Family honor; title: Loose hair; title: Motherhood; title: The bird; title: Separation; title: Satan.