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English edition
190 pp.
Paperback
12.5X20 cm
$15.95
LE 75.00
ISBN
978 977 424 399 8
For sale only in the Middle East
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Salwa Bakr
Translated by
Denys Johnson-Davies
These thirteen stories and a short novella by Salwa Bakr, one of Egypt’s most interesting and forthright woman writers of fiction, reveal an emerging talent of great power.
Set among the poor and underprivileged of contemporary Cairo, the stories have as their protagonists women struggling to provide themselves with the basic necessities of life. They set out to explore the limits of self-awareness, the pressure to conform, and some of the strange paths to escape that women resort to in a conservative society shot through with social and sexual prejudice and preconceptions.
Salwa Bakr rightly contends that Arabic literature has been the domain of men, that it is the task of women writing in Arabic to redress the balance, and that women’s writing has a positive role to play in freeing not only women but also men.
Salwa Bakr is the author of four volumes of short stories and four novels. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, and Dutch. She is married, has two children, and lives in an outer suburb of Cairo.
Denys Johnson-Davies has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008), The Essential Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 2009), and The Essential Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011). He was described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time.” Johnson-Davies received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture
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