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1 online resource (xviii, 138 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Translatorâ#x80;#x99;s Introduction; Preface; One. The White Butterfly; Two. Amina and Hamada and Fido; Three. Rina and the Palm Tree and the Male Duck; Four. A Scandal in the World of Gardens; Five. The Scandal of the Hoopoe; Six. Next to the Heater; Seven. Muuny; Eight. The Strange Tree; Nine. Fido has a Sunbath â#x80;Ø Hamadaâ#x80;#x99;s Letter and Dizziness; Ten. The Boy Is Playing; Eleven. Muuny and the Frogess; Twelve. Rina and the Guardian Angel; Thirteen. The Death of Shahata; Fourteen. Amina in Bed and Jasmine Tea; Fifteen. The Cat and the Lizard |
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Sixteen. Jasmine on the CarpetSeventeen. The Praying Mantis; Eighteen. Ants and My Mother and Gumâ#x80;#x99;a; Nineteen. Fidoâ#x80;#x99;s Death; Twenty. Who Is the Tree?; Twenty-One. The Great Fall; Twenty-Two. The End; Afterword by Naguib Mahfouz |
| Summary |
"Paradise, for the skeptic Mohammed Afifi, was just four steps down from his porch into a sunny garden. There he would sit, morning and evening, in the shadow of Tamaara, his beloved tamarhinna tree, soaking up the sights, sounds, and smells of his precious corner of the natural world. From an old, yellow straw chair, Afifi would train his perceptive gaze on that garden in all its detail. Flora and fauna blessed him with honorary membership in their enchanted realm. Only the rare downpours of winter and the dust storms of spring could banish him indoors. Yet, whether inspired at the side of the heater, purring black cat on his lap, or next to the pansy bed, with ecstatic flocks of bee-eaters overhead, Afifi's intimate, whimsical musings radiate a profound and unique sense of place. Mohammed Afifi died in 1981, in winter, just after completing this fictionalized memoir."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabic essays -- 20th century
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Humorous stories, Arabic
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FICTION -- General.
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Arabic essays
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Novels.
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Romans.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
White, Lisa, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9781610752411 |
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1610752414 |
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