Scattered Crumbs
Subtitle: A Novel
Contributors: Yasmeen S. Hanoosh (Translator)
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781557287502
Subjects: Historical - General; Poetry; Fiction; Middle Eastern
First sentence: I left my country, retracing Mahmoud's steps, searching for him, dreaming that we might do something and become men worthy of respect so that afterward women-like my cousin Warda, who moved from husband to husband until she ended under Ismael the liar-would search for us.
Description: "Set in an Iraqi village during the Iran-Iraq war, Scattered Crumbs critiques a totalitarian dictatorship through the stories of an impoverished peasant family. A father, a fierce supporter of Saddam Hussein - here called only the Leader - clashes with his artist son, who loves his homeland but finds himself literally unable to paint the Leader's portrait for his father's wall. The novel evokes the deterioration both of the country and of the individual characters caught up in the maelstrom. Scattered Crumbs was first published in Arabic in Cairo in 2000. This translation captures the subtle sarcasm of the original text and its elliptical rhythms."--BOOK JACKET.