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Author
Series
New Directions poetry pamphlets volume 10
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
63 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A prominent practitioner of the Arabic "very short story" (al-qisa al-qasira jiddan), Osama Alomar's poetic fictions embody the wisdom of Kahlil Gibran filtered through the violent gray absurdity of Assad's police state. Fullblood Arabian is the first publication of Alomar's strange, often humorously satirical allegories, where good and evil battle with indifference, avarice, and compassion using striking imagery and effervescent language.
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 176 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A themed collection of short stories about animals, which offers a striking example of environmentally concerned literature from the Arab world, by an Egyptian author with a keen and sensitive eye for the behavior of animals-especially homo sapiens"--
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