- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Saqi Books; Tra edition (1 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0863565166
- ISBN-13: 978-0863565168
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 13.6 x 0.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,841,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Kharrat's prose is carefully wrought and offers ... richly melancholy pleasures.' TLS 'The mundane and the mystical meet in ... the finest prose.' Jordan Times Praise for Edwar al-Kharrat: 'More Proust than Durrell, and I think worthy of the comparison.'Doris Lessing 'A rich and rare achievement, gem-clear, mysteriously shimmering.' Guardian
Times Literary Supplement, July 1, 2005
'Offers richly melancholy pleasures. Kharrat's prose is carefully wrought.'
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
amazing
10 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
This novel provides very profound insight to coptic Egyptian life in a flavor very different from any thing you have known before. If you want a " real " taste of Egypt with mythical refelections from Christian,Greco-roman and Ancient Egyptian mythology.
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Lost in Translation
26 Aug 2008
Format:Paperback
Autobiographical, the story is Al Kharrats recollections as a teenage boy in 1940's Egypt, recalling the changing society and customs that were soon to die out and the authors rites of passage into adulthood.
I don't doubt the preface which tells of the work that went into this translation (Arabic is notoriously difficult and uses different literary devices) but despite this something gets lost in translation. The stories are very fragmented-I often had to recap-over wordy and Al Kharrats poetic musings just seem to futher fog things up.
Only 145 pages long, this is a labourious read. The translation probably suits the purist ethos, but surely a translators job is to make the work accessable to its intended readers.As it is, only scraps of its potential beauty come accross.
I don't doubt the preface which tells of the work that went into this translation (Arabic is notoriously difficult and uses different literary devices) but despite this something gets lost in translation. The stories are very fragmented-I often had to recap-over wordy and Al Kharrats poetic musings just seem to futher fog things up.
Only 145 pages long, this is a labourious read. The translation probably suits the purist ethos, but surely a translators job is to make the work accessable to its intended readers.As it is, only scraps of its potential beauty come accross.
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