Distant View of a Minaret: And Other StoriesHeinemann, 1987 - 116 עמודים This collection of short stories admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque. The book provides accounts of death, the lives of women in purdah and the frustrations of everyday life. |
תוכן
Distant View of a Minaret | 1 |
Bahiyyas Eyes | 5 |
Telephone Call | 13 |
Thursday Lunch | 17 |
An Incident in the Ghobashi Household | 23 |
Badriyya and Her Husband | 29 |
Me and My Sister | 39 |
Mansoura | 47 |
The Long Night of Winter | 55 |
My World of the Unknown | 61 |
At the Time of the Jasmine | 77 |
The Flat in Nakshabandi Street | 89 |
Degrees of Death | 103 |
The Kite | 107 |
Just Another Day | 113 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alifa Rifaat Allah alongside Aneesa asked Awwad Aziza Badriyya began body bring brought café Cairo canal chickens cigarettes coffee courtyard Dahshan Dalal date palms daughter dawn dead death Denys Johnson-Davies djinn door eyes face father feel felt fingers flat front galabia garden gave girl hand Hassan Hatshepsut head heard Hindawi husband Kaaba Kamil knew laughed live looked Lord Mahmoud Mansoura marriage married Minaret Mitwalli morning mother muezzin Muhammedain Mummy muttered Nakshabandi Street Nargis Ni'ma night Omar Paris Salon passed piastres prayers Qur'an returned round Sayyid Sheikh Hammad Sheikh Zeidan SHIMMER CHINODYA shoulders silence sipping sitting sleep snake someone stared stay stood story suddenly talking tell things thought told took Turkish coffee turned Umm Gaber's village voice Waheeba waiting walked washed Widad window women words young Zeinat