The Book of Khartoum : A City in Short Fiction Paperback / softback
by Ahmed Al-Malik, Bushra Al-Fadil, Ali Al-Makk, Isa Al-Hilu, Arthur Gabriel Yak, Bawadir Bashir, Rania Mamoun, Mamoun Eltlib
Edited by Raphael Cormack, Max Shmookler
Part of the Reading the City series
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Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning ‘meeting place’.
Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan’s long, troubled history of forced migration.
In the pages of this book – the first major anthology of Sudanese stories to be translated into English – the city also stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the dreams of a young boy, playing in his father’s shop, act out a future that may one day be his.
Diverse literary styles also come together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new ‘Iksir’ generation.
As with any great city, it is from these complex tensions that the best stories begin.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Comma Press
- Publication Date:28/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781905583720
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Comma Press
- Publication Date:28/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781905583720