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A novella about a Sudanese man who returns from studying abroad and meets a sex-crazed psychopath who also lived in Europe and wants to tell the narrator all about his encounters with women, aka “his prey,” in which he encouraged them to exoticize him and finally drove them all to suicide with the p...
The thing about 1001 Nights is the ending, where Sherzhade gets to keep her head. Would you really like to be married to a man who kept beheading wives on the first day of the honeymoon? Mahfouz seems to be playing with this idea and some others in this quasi sequel to Arabian Night...
bookshelves: published-1966, winter20092010, african-continent, fraudio, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, afr-sudan, radio-3 Read from January 21 to 22, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Season of Migration to the NorthBy Tayeb SalihTranslated by Denys Johnson-DaviesDramatised by Philip Palmer.From the descrip...
bookshelves: translation, published-1982, books-with-a-passport, tbr-busting-2013, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, afr-egypt, fantasy, paper-read, giftee, nobel-laureate Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Themis-Athena (Does not and never will own a Kindle) Read from December 09, 2012 to January 02, 2...
I think this book wants for a better translator, so I'm not willing to rate it until then.
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