{"product_id":"under-the-naked-sky-short-stories-from-the-arab-world","title":"Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eUnder the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDenys Johnson-Davies\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9789774246043\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe American University in Cairo Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e252\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eDrawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson-Davies brings together in this collection a colorful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a cat at the height of an Iraqi summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya; and a novel way of hunting ducks in the Nile Delta. The purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Gamal al-Ghitani, and Mohamed El-Bisatie from Egypt; Fuad al-Takarli and Mohamed Khudayyir from Iraq; Zakaria Tamer from Syria; Hanan al-Shaykh from Lebanon; and Ibrahim al-Kouni from Libya.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The American University in Cairo Press","offers":[{"title":"Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World | Denys Johnson-Davies | Hardcover | 9789774246043 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1705426","offer_id":48753952489624,"sku":"1705426","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91ZUkTyxP9L.jpg?v=1774070403","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/under-the-naked-sky-short-stories-from-the-arab-world","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}