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The square moon : supernatural tales

Title
The square moon : supernatural tales / Ghada Samman ; translated from the Arabic by Issa J. Boullata.
Author
Sammān, Ghādah.
Publication
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
Boullata, Issa J., 1929-2019.
Description
203 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  • Marking collisions of culture and character, these ten short stories arise at the frontiers where Arabic tradition melds with both the modern European world and a Gothic strata of the supernatural. The resultant mix sparks tensions between the sexes, between identities, and between experimental forms of storytelling and strict narrative.
  • In Samman's fiction, matchmakers still come to call, but lovers go bungee jumping. A schizophrenic has a discussion with one of his personalities about murder and relationships with women. Avoiding ghosts both real and imagined, a war exile confronts class structure; the art of Paris; and the trials of being a woman, an Arab, and a writer in a country and culture not her own.
  • The spirit of a strangled lover tells the story of his murder and of the web of love, beauty, lust, and loathing that brought about his demise.
Uniform Title
Qamar al-murabbaʻ. English
Alternative Title
Qamar al-murabbaʻ.
Contents
Beheading the Cat -- The Metallic Crocodile -- The Plot against Badi' -- Register: I'm Not an Arab Woman -- Visitors of a Dying Person -- The Swan Genie -- Thirty Years of Bees -- The Other Side of the Door -- An Air-Conditioned Egg -- The Brain's Closed Castle.
ISBN
  • 1557285349 (alk. paper)
  • 1557285357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98030084
OCLC
ocm39391192
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries