The world through the eyes of angels [electronic resource] / Mahmoud Saeed ; translated from the Arabic by Samuel Salter, Rafah Abuinnab, and Zahra Jishi.

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Saʻīd, Maḥmūd, 1938-

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Middle East literature in translationPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780815650775
0815650779

Uniform titles:

Dunyā fī aʻyun al-malāʼikah. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: World through the eyes of angels.DDC classification:

892.7/37 23

LOC classification:

PJ7862.A5236 D8613 2011eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

pt. 1. The Mullah -- pt. 2. Al-Shahdi : the refuge of the fearful -- pt. 3. Miss Khadija and the carrot -- pt. 4. Selam -- pt. 5. The ravishing Madeleine -- pt. 6. To love anew -- pt. 7. Ghasoub and Ghadban -- pt. 8. Hajim and Sabika and a long night of love -- pt. 9. Shafaq -- pt. 10. Shu'a -- pt. 11. Nour -- pt. 12. Regrets.

Summary: Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up. Burdened with chores from an early age, and afflicted with an older brother who persecutes him with mindless sadism, the child finds happiness only in stolen moments with his beloved older sister and with friends in the streets. Closest to his heart are three girls, encountered by chance: a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew. After enriching the boy's life immensely, all three meet tragic fates, leaving a wound in his heart that will not heal. A richly textured portrayal of Iraqi society before the upheavals of the late twentieth century, Saeed's novel depicts a sensitive and loving child assailed by the cruelty of life. Sometimes defeated but never surrendering, he is sustained by his city and its people.

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Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up. Burdened with chores from an early age, and afflicted with an older brother who persecutes him with mindless sadism, the child finds happiness only in stolen moments with his beloved older sister and with friends in the streets. Closest to his heart are three girls, encountered by chance: a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew. After enriching the boy's life immensely, all three meet tragic fates, leaving a wound in his heart that will not heal. A richly textured portrayal of Iraqi society before the upheavals of the late twentieth century, Saeed's novel depicts a sensitive and loving child assailed by the cruelty of life. Sometimes defeated but never surrendering, he is sustained by his city and its people.

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