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Heads Ripe for Plucking (Modern Arabic Novels) (Hardcover)

by Mahmoud Al-Wardani (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: American University in Cairo Press (15 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 9774161882
  • ISBN-13: 978-9774161889
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.2 x 2 cm
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An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, I see heads that are ripe for plucking. In Mahmoud Al-Wardani s novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one s head are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser s prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs.

About the Author

Mahmoud Al-Wardani, born in Cairo in 1950, is a writer and cultural journalist. He is the author of six novels and three collections of short stories.

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