The devil is a black dog
Subtitle: stories from the Middle East and beyond
By: Sandor Jaszberenyi ; translated from the Hungarian by M. Henderson Ellis
Contributors: Ellis, M. Henderson, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New Europe Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780990004325
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Az ordog egy fekete kutya
Description: "From Cairo to Benghazi, from the Gaza Strip to the Darfur refugee camps of Chad, and from Budapest to Hungary's provinces, this 'impressive debut collection of 19 stories' (Publishers Weekly) is a powerful testament to how human beings are affected by the violent undercurrents of everyday life and also by extraordinary circumstances--war, poverty, extremist religion, revolution, and murder"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: First published in Hungarian in 2013 by Kalligram, Budapest.
Table of contents: title: The Fever --; title: Professional killers --; title: The Blake Precept --; title: How Ahmed Salem abandoned God --; title: The Devil is a black dog --; title: The First --; title: Taking Trinidad --; title: Something about the job --; title: How we didn't win --; title: Registration --; title: End of the world --; title: Twins --; title: Somewhere on the border --; title: Homecoming --; title: The Field --; title: The Desert is cold in the morning --; title: The Majestic clouds --; title: The Strongest knot --; title: The Dead ride fast.