Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Alifa Rifaat, Denys Johnson-Davies (Trans.)
Language: English
Published by Waveland Press, Inc., 2014
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- Title
- Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
- Author
- Alifa Rifaat, Denys Johnson-Davies (Trans.)
- Publisher
- Waveland Press, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1478611286
- ISBN 13
- 9781478611288
Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, the collection admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque, but often full of profound anguish and personal isolation. Badriyya's despairing anger at her deceitful husband, for example, or the haunting melancholy of "At the Time of the Jasmine," are treated with a sensitivity to the discipline and order of Islam.
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