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Author Jászberényi, Sándor, author

Title The devil is a black dog : stories from the Middle East and beyond / Sándor Jászberényi
Published Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, [2015]
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2015
©2015

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Description 194 pages ; 20 cm
Contents The fever -- Professional killers -- The Blake precept -- How Ahmed Salem abandoned God -- The Devil is a black dog -- The first -- Taking Trinidad -- Something about the job -- How we didn't win -- Registration -- End of the world -- Twins -- Somewhere on the border -- Homecoming -- The field -- The desert is cold in the morning -- The majestic clouds -- The strongest knot -- The dead ride fast
Summary "Immersed i the societies he reports on and heedless in the face of war and revolution, Jaszberenyi observes mothers, martyrs, soldiers, and lovers who must confront the extremes of contemporary experience. In spare, evocative prose, he combines fact and fiction to create a profoundly true portrait of the hunamity behind the headlines." --Backcover
Notes "This book is a work of fiction" -- back of title page
Audience Adult
Notes Also published electronically
Translation from Hungarian
Subject Jaszbere..nyi, Sandor
Jászberényi, Sándor.
Jászberényi, Sándor -- Translations into English.
Short stories, Hungarian -- Translations into English.
Short stories, Hungarian.
SUBJECT Africa -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101346
Europe, Eastern -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114929
Middle East -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107185
Middle East. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090501
Genre/Form Short stories.
War fiction.
Author Ellis, M. Henderson, translator
ISBN 9781925106930