Friendly fire
By: Alaa Al Aswany ; translated by Humphrey Davies
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780007306008; 9780007315598
Subjects: Fiction; Social conditions
Description: A collection of short stories, which focuses on the minute stitches of pain that hold together an individual, a family, a school classroom, or the relationship between a man and a woman. Readers will find the vivid, passionate characters of today's Cairo, clamouring to be heard.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.
Table of contents: title: The Isam Adb el-Ati papers; title: The kitchen boy; title: And we have covered their eyes; title: To the air conditioning attendant of the hall; title: An administrative order; title: When the glass shatters; title: Latin and Greek; title: An old blue dress and a close-fitting covering for the head, brightly colored; title: Izzat Amin Iskandar; title: Dearest sister Makarim; title: The sorrows of Hagg Ahmad; title: Waiting for the leader; title: A look into Nagi's face; title: Why, Sayed? (A question); title: Games; title: Boxer puppies, all colors; title: Mme Zitta Mendè̀s, a last image.