Research Catalog

Title

Wedding night / Yusuf Abu Rayya ; translated by R. Neil Hewison.

Author

Abū Rayyah, Yūsuf.

Publication

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hewison, R. Neil

Description

138 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In a small town in the Nile Delta lives Houda, the deaf and mute butcher's apprentice, who makes up for his lack of voice by two all-seeing eyes that pierce the most intimate and secret details of his neighbors. Revealing the town's private stories through public sign language, he articulates the unspoken and the forbidden, to unsettle the apparent quietude of rural society." "But Houda's own unrestrained desire and his uninhibited sexual exploits scandalize the town and rock its codes of public behavior. When it is reported that he has violated the sanctity of his employer's own house, the whole town, with the butcher and his friend Shaykh Saadoun in the lead, rises to avenge itself and publicly humiliate him. The elaborate ruse planned by the butcher and the shaykh plays on Houda's hopes and dreams, and he is in for a fall - but with so many scores to settle, will anybody be there to catch him?"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Modern Arabic literature

Uniform Title

• Laylat ʻurs. English
• Modern Arabic literature.

Alternative Title

• Laylat ʻurs.
• Laylat 'urs

Subject

• Man-woman relationships > Egypt > Fiction
• Nile River Delta (Egypt) > Fiction
• Egypt > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fictional Work
• Fiction
• Romans.

Note

• Novel.
• "First published in Arabic in 2002 as Laylat 'urs"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9774160061
• 9789774160066

OCLC

• 80015425
• SCSB-11012709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library