Overview
Sudan, 1968, the military coup taking place in Khartoum echoes all the way to the small rural town of Hajer Narti, where the body of a young girl has been found in the Nile. Fatima shows up, as according to popular belief, when the Nile brings a new body back, it also brings back an old one. Fatima is still looking for her daughter Souad, believed to have drowned many years ago. With scarce descriptions, and just the minimal amount of words, Ziada succeeds in portraying very convincing characters, and in poignantly capturing the violence of social relations in a strictly codified society.
Full Product Details
Author: Hammour Ziada ,
Paul G. Starkey
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Imprint: Interlink Books
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.125kg
ISBN: 9781623719067
ISBN 10: 1623719062
Pages: 170
Publication Date: 08 September 2022
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General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Ziada (The Book of Khartoum) delves into forced marriages, sexual violence, and oppression in a rural Sudanese town in this affecting if opaque nonlinear narrative ... [A] haunting portrayal of the Nile as both lifeblood and ever-present threat .... --Publishers Weekly
[The Drowning] opens dramatically with the appearance of the drowned body of a woman at a village near the shores of the Nile. Who is she? Why was she killed? Neither of these questions is ever answered and instead we are plunged into the life of the villagers, their conflicts, histories, and relationships. This is a gripping, visceral novel, written with extraordinary energy. When I finished reading it, I felt as if a storm had ended and I was left strangely with a glimpse of the drowned woman and an understanding of why she died, like a scene illuminated in a flash of lightning. --Leila Aboulela in LitHub's Writers and the Books they Loved Ziada (The Book of Khartoum) delves into forced marriages, sexual violence, and oppression in a rural Sudanese town in this affecting if opaque nonlinear narrative ... [A] haunting portrayal of the Nile as both lifeblood and ever-present threat .... --Publishers Weekly
Author Information
Hammour Ziada is an award-winning Sudanese writer and journalist. His previous novel The Longing of the Derwish won the 2014 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and was shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction. Paul G. Starkey has translated works by Adania Shibli, Mansoura Ez Eldin, Youssef Rakha, Edwar al-Kharrat, Mahmoud Shukair, Hammour Ziada and others. He was Winner of the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation of The Book of the Sultan's Seal by Youssef Rakha.
