Distant View of a Minaret - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distant View of a Minaret write by Alifa Rifaat. This book was released on 1987. Distant View of a Minaret available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories write by Alifa Rifaat. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories. Rifaat (1930–1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad. This virtual immunity from Western influence lends a special authenticity to her direct yet sincere accounts of death, sexual fulfillment, the lives of women in purdah, and the frustrations of everyday life in a male-dominated Islamic environment. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, the collection admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque, but often full of profound anguish and personal isolation. Badriyya’s despairing anger at her deceitful husband, for example, or the haunting melancholy of “At the Time of the Jasmine,” are treated with a sensitivity to the discipline and order of Islam.
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories write by Alīfa Rifʿat. This book was released on 2002. Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Distant View of a Minaret
Distant View of a Minaret - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distant View of a Minaret write by Alīfah Rifʻat. This book was released on 1983. Distant View of a Minaret available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook So Long a Letter write by Mariama Bâ. This book was released on 2012-05-06. So Long a Letter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Bâ and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences —some wistful, some bitter—recounted by recently widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of educated and articulate Muslim women. Angered by the traditions that allow polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu dominated by attitudes and values that deny them status equal to men. Ramatoulaye hopes for a world where the best of old customs and new freedom can be combined. Considered a classic of contemporary African women’s literature, So Long a Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country. Winner of the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
