Ten again
and other stories
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Publication
2006 - American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, Egypt
Language
English
Word Count
65,500 words, Guess
Page Count
262 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17217381M
- ISBN-139789774249471
- ISBN-10977424947X
- OCLC Control Number608170304
- OCLC Control Number70877526
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Numbertenagainothersto0000mazi
- Goodreads5739842
- LibraryThing1883203
Classifications
- LCCPJ7946.A9 A2 2006
Description
"Ibrahim al-Mazini was one of the great humorists and stylists of twentieth-century Arabic prose literature, capturing the foibles and triumphs of Cairo's middle classes of the 1930s and 1940s in exceptionally stylish prose. This collection gathers in one volume some of al-Mazini's best short fiction, including two novellas: Midu and His Accomplices and Ten Again. Midu is an engaging, well-liked army officer who, assisted by almost every other character in the story, arranges a faux heist from his uncle's library in order to allow young love to run its course. In Ten Again, a man awakes to find that he has returned to childhood, on the day of his tenth birthday: his wife, who is being wooed by a most obnoxious suitor, is now his mother, and his two sons torment him mercilessly at his birthday party. In al-Mazini's skillful hands, the short stories included here illuminate a lively fictional world: from a drunken encounter with a parrot to an undertaker's attempt to provide a cadaver with a believer's contented smile."--Jacket.
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