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Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World »
Authors: Denys Johnson-Davies
ISBN-13: 9789774247804, ISBN-10: 9774247809
Format: Paperback
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, The
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Denys Johnson-Davies
DENYS JOHNSON-DAVIES has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008) and The Essential Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 2009). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.
Book Synopsis
Short stories from some of Egypt's greatest writers
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| The Pilot | 7 | |
| It's Not Fair | 10 | |
| The Ill-Omened Golden Bird | 14 | |
| Traveler with Hand Luggage | 23 | |
| Death of a Dagger | 27 | |
| Have You Seen Alexandria Station? | 33 | |
| Women in Fear | 36 | |
| An Invitation | 46 | |
| The Dog | 57 | |
| A Dash of Light | 60 | |
| The Cloud | 65 | |
| The Clock | 71 | |
| Fear | 74 | |
| Out in the Open | 95 | |
| The Sound of Singing | 100 | |
| The Charge | 108 | |
| The Apples of Paradise | 120 | |
| Corncobs | 131 | |
| Snake Hunting | 142 | |
| The Money Order | 149 | |
| To the Night's Shelter | 153 | |
| The Man Shouldn't Know of This | 166 | |
| The Day Grandpa Came | 169 | |
| My Fellow Passenger | 176 | |
| The Women's Room | 182 | |
| It Happened Secretly | 185 | |
| Whiteness of Silver | 196 | |
| The Return of the Prisoner | 211 | |
| A Boat on the Water | 219 | |
| Presence of the Absent Man | 223 | |
| About the Authors | 234 |
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