Tigers on the Tenth Day and Other Stories (Emerging Voices (Quartet))
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0704324652 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 123 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Most of Zakaria Tamer's stories deal with man's inhumanity to man likewise to woman the oppression of the poor by the rich and of the weak by the strong.The political and social problems of his own country, Syria, and of the contemporary Arab world, are reflected in the stories and sketches in the sharply satirical style typical of his writing. For his Western readers, often puzzled by the complexities of the Middle East, Zakaria Tamer's stories, in the words of his translator, "provide a revealing peep behind the scenes" in this first volume of his work in the Englishlanguage.. Satirical stories of Syria and the Arab world look at the abuse of power by m over women, the rich over the poor, and the strong over the weak.The short, t
From Library Journal Tamer, an acknowledged master of the children's story in Arabic, here applies the style and elements of that genre to decidedly adult themes. . L. So fashioned, the stories become instruments of social and cultural criticism with which Tamer dissects everything from secret police abuses to sexual frustration among Arab youth. M. The volume represents the first of Tamer's work to appear in English. Lewis, Social Science Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., RichmondCopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. In these two dozen very short stories, the prose is simple and direct; the forms are parable and fable; the ingredients are dreams, talking animals, and intentional anachronisms
Short stories by a Syrian author Matthew F. Wettlaufer Tamir is an outstanding writer: his writings are short, concise, and hypnotic. His prose sometimes has a quality that many Middle Eastern/Mediterranean writers have of sensuous overload--sensuous imagery that is intoxicating (I think of Kemal, Tewfiq al Hakim or Kazantzakis for example). His stories often attack injustice in a myriad of forms, from the behviour of the police under dictatorships, to the treatment of women in the masculinist societies of the Near East, from political and economic injustice