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Subject(s)

• Idrīs, Yūsuf—Translations into English [Browse]
• Egypt—Social life and customs—Fiction [Browse]

Author of foreword

• Fishere, Ezzedine C. (Ezzedine Choukri), 1966- [Browse]

Translator

• Wassef, Wadida, 1926- [Browse]

Author of introduction

• Wassef, Wadida, 1926- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]
• Short stories [Browse]

Series

Penguin classics [More in this series]

Summary note

"A collection of short stories that explores the everyday life of people in Egypt."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

• The cheapest nights
• You are everything to me
• The errand
• Hard up
• The queue
• The funeral ceremony
• All on a summer's night
• The caller in the night
• The dregs of the city
• Did you have to turn on the light, Li-Li-?
• Death from old age
• Bringing in the bride
• The shame
• Because the day of judgment never comes
• The freak.

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ISBN

• 9780143133988 ((trade paperback))
• 0143133985 ((trade paperback))

LCCN

2019031797

OCLC

1110656373

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