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Heads Ripe for Plucking
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Series: Modern Arabic Novels (Hardcover)
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ISBN10: 9774161882
ISBN13: 9789774161889
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Nov 1 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789774161889
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Nov 1 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical-- torture, murder,
decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head-- are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's
decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head-- are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's
prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of
programs.
programs.
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