{"product_id":"under-the-naked-sky-short-stories-from-the-arab-world","title":"Under the Naked Sky : Short Stories from the Arab World","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 198 x 124 x 17\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor: Denys Johnson-Davies\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9789774247804\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 243\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48602453835929,"sku":"12RB9789774247804","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/Under_the_Naked_Sky_Short_Stories_from_the_Arab_World_Denys_Johnson-Davies.jpg?v=1785600592","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/under-the-naked-sky-short-stories-from-the-arab-world","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}