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Author : Alifa Rifaat
Release : 1987
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Distant View of a Minaret by : Alifa Rifaat
Download or read book Distant View of a Minaret written by Alifa Rifaat. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.
Author : Alifa Rifaat
Release : 2014-01-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by : Alifa Rifaat
Download or read book Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories written by Alifa Rifaat. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Author : Alīfa Rifʿat
Release : 2002
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by : Alīfa Rifʿat
Download or read book Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories written by Alīfa Rifʿat. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alīfah Rifʻat
Release : 1983
Genre : Arabic literature
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Book Synopsis Distant View of a Minaret by : Alīfah Rifʻat
Download or read book Distant View of a Minaret written by Alīfah Rifʻat. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mariama Bâ
Release : 2012-05-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 235/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis So Long a Letter by : Mariama Bâ
Download or read book So Long a Letter written by Mariama Bâ. This book was released on 2012-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
