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Dear Mr Kawabata

Title: Dear Mr Kawabata / Rashīd Daʻīf ; translated by Paul Starkey ; foreword by Margaret Drabble.
Author: Ḍaʻīf, Rashīd
Publication: London : Quartet Books, 1999.

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ix, 166 pages; 20 cm

Summary

"As a young Lebanese man lies dying in a makeshift mortuary in Beirut during the last days of the civil war in 1991, thoughts of his past life flood through his mind. In his disordered imagination, he writes to the Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata who had killed himself in 1972, and argues with him about dying, free will and the value of memory which is for him 'a support untouched by doubt'." "Reaching back to his childhood in the mountains of Northern Lebanon, he recalls the time when Gagarin first orbited the earth and he had to insist to his mother that the world was round, not flat. His move to university in Beirut, the death of his father and his entanglement in the violent politics of the 1970s lead to fierce commitment and an eventual loss of faith."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

ʻAzīzī al-Sayyid Kawābātā. English

Alternative Title

ʻAzīzī al-Sayyid Kawābātā.
Dear Mister Kawabata

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction
History
Fiction.
Novels.
Arabic fiction
Romans.

Note

Novel.
Translation of: ʻAzīzī al-Sayyid Kawābātā.
‏Original title in Arabic: عزيزي السيد كواباتا.

ISBN

0704381133
9780704381131

OCLC

ocm42303309
42303309
SCSB-869320

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library