Description
A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers.
A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has been softly twisted several degrees.
Najwa Bin Shatwan navigates the tensions between loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret, and tenderness and cruelty to weave a portrait of family, war and nation against a stark backdrop of the completely absurd.
Author: Najwa Bin Shatwan
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 08/05/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781912868728
ISBN10: 1912868725
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Feminist
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has been softly twisted several degrees.
Najwa Bin Shatwan navigates the tensions between loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret, and tenderness and cruelty to weave a portrait of family, war and nation against a stark backdrop of the completely absurd.
Author: Najwa Bin Shatwan
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 08/05/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781912868728
ISBN10: 1912868725
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Feminist
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary