The cheapest nights, and other stories
By: Yusuf Idris ; translated from the Arabic by Wadida Wassef.
Publisher: Three Continents Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Short stories, Arabic -- Translations into English.; Arab countries -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Translations into English.; Fiction.
Work titles: Arkhaṣ layālī.
Notes: Translation of: Arkhaṣ layālī.
Table of contents: The cheapest nights; You are everything to me; The errand; Hard up; The queue; The funeral ceremony; All on a summer's night; The caller in the night; The dregs of the city; Did you have to turn on the light, Li-Li?; Death from old age; Bringing in the bride; The shame; Because the Day of Judgement never comes; The freak.