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100 1 $aWarda ni , Mah Đmu d.
240 10 $6880-01$aAwa n al-qit Đa f.$lEnglish
245 10 $aHeads ripe for plucking /$cMahmoud Al-Wardani ; translated by Hala Halim.
260 $aCairo ;$aNew York :$bAmerican University in Cairo Press,$c2008.
300 $av, 166 pages ;$c21 cm.
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490 1 $aModern Arabic literature
546 $6880-02$aIn English translated from the Arabic.
500 $a"First published in Arabic in 2002 as Awan al-qitaf"--Title page verso.
500 $a"Dar el Kutub No. 4341/08"--Title page verso.
500 $aNovel.
500 $6880-03$aOriginal title: Awan al-qitaf (Harvest time).
520 $a"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 prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body decapitated 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."--Jacket.
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700 1 $aHalim, Hala.
830 0 $aModern Arabic literature.
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