portada East Winds, West Winds (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr

Editorial

American University in Cairo Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

512

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6x15.7x3.8 cm

Peso

1.02 kg.

ISBN

977416296X

ISBN13

9789774162961

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

East Winds, West Winds (en Inglés)

Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr (Autor) · American University in Cairo Press · Tapa Dura

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Originally published in Cairo in 1998, this carefully crafted novel represents a welcome addition to a body of literature that has so far received less than the attention it merits by comparison with that of Egypt and the Levant. Set among the oil wells of the Basra region of southern Iraq, where the writer spent much of his working life, the novel draws on the author's own experiences to paint a picture at once subtle and vivid of relations between the British and their local employees in the 1950s. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of the young, bookish narrator, who is clearly modeled on the author himself. It soon becomes clear that a world of difference separates the lives of Abu Jabbar, Hussein, Istifan, and the rest from that of their European bosses with their company dances and other strange social customs. Although the novel has a strongly nationalistic flavor, it is also suffused with a lingering sense of nostalgia for a gentler age, which will inevitably prompt reflections on the more recent British and US involvement in that unhappy country.