In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring novelist and construction laborer of the lowest order, leads us down a fractured path of reminiscence in his quest for purpose and identity in a world where the old orders and traditions are powerless to help. Bawdy and wistful, ...
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In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring novelist and construction laborer of the lowest order, leads us down a fractured path of reminiscence in his quest for purpose and identity in a world where the old orders and traditions are powerless to help. Bawdy and wistful, tragicomic and bitter, his stories loop and repeat, crackling with the frictive energy of colliding worlds and linguistic registers. These are the tales of Cairo's new Bedouin, men not settled by the state but permanently uprooted by it. Like their lives, their stories are dislocated and unplotted, mapping out their quest for meaning in the very act of placing brick on brick and word on word.
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Add this copy of A Dog With No Tail to cart. $24.49, Sold by HGG Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Slingerlands, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by The American University in Cairo Press.
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Clean pages, tight binding, clea. Original dust jacket over cloth. Size: 9x0x6; Stated first edition, inscribed to prior owner in front spaceclean pages, tight binding, clean boards, original dust jacket, original dust jacket over cloth boards, original dust jacket over cloth boards.
Add this copy of A Dog With No Tail to cart. $39.71, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by The American University in Cai.
Add this copy of A Dog With No Tail to cart. $72.00, very good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 2009 by The American University in Cairo Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Some edge wear on the book and jacket. gift inscription. probably signed by translator. all else remains intact and presentable. very good copy. [SK]
