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Wedding Night: An Egyptian Novel
Yusuf Abu Rayya
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Paperback. Translator(s): Hewison, R Neil. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
In a small town in the Nile Delta lives Houda the deaf and mute butcher's apprentice. Revealing the town's private stories through public sign language, Houda articulates the unspoken and the forbidden, to unsettle the apparent quietude of rural society. But his own unrestrained desire threatens to scandalize the town and rock its codes of public behavior. When it is reported that he has violated the sanctity of his employer's own house, the whole town, with the butcher and Shaykh Saadoun, the pretending Sufi, in the lead, rises to avenge itself and publicly humiliate and ridicule Houda. The elaborate ruse ... Read more
In a small town in the Nile Delta lives Houda the deaf and mute butcher's apprentice. Revealing the town's private stories through public sign language, Houda articulates the unspoken and the forbidden, to unsettle the apparent quietude of rural society. But his own unrestrained desire threatens to scandalize the town and rock its codes of public behavior. When it is reported that he has violated the sanctity of his employer's own house, the whole town, with the butcher and Shaykh Saadoun, the pretending Sufi, in the lead, rises to avenge itself and publicly humiliate and ridicule Houda. The elaborate ruse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774166839
SKU
V9789774166839
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About Yusuf Abu Rayya
Yusuf Abu Rayya (1955-2009) was born in Hihya in the Nile Delta. He wrote seven novels, five short story collections, and nine books for children, and was on the governing board of the Egyptian branch of PEN International. Wedding Night was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2005. R. Neil Hewison is the translator of ... Read more
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