| Houses Behind the Trees Univ of Texas P Edition Contributor(s): El-Bisatie, Mohamed (Author), Johnson-Davies, Denys (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0292720955 ISBN-13: 9780292720954 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97-53237 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.08" W x 7.88" (0.29 lbs) 109 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arab World - Cultural Region - East Africa - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - North Africa - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie's finely tuned novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions in a community in which nothing is secret and where people's pasts haunt their present. |
Contributor Bio(s): El-Bisatie, Mohamed: - Mohamed El-Bisatie’s first collection of short stories was published in Arabic in 1968. Since then, he has written five more volumes of short stories and five novellas. Born and raised in the Nile Delta, he now lives in Cairo. He is the author of A Last Glass of Tea, a collection of short stories published in 1994.Johnson-Davies, Denys: - Denys Johnson-Davies has been described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time." |