{"product_id":"final-night-short-stories-paperback","title":"Final Night: Short Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eButhaina Al Nasiri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979. Despite this physical and temporal distance from her homeland, much of her material derives from it and many of the stories in this collection reflect her deeply felt nostalgia for Iraq. In contrast to many contemporary female writers, she confesses to being less interested in the position of women in society than in that of people in general and the sufferings they experience between birth and the end of life. None the less, some of her best stories depict the many-colored relationships that exist between the sexes. Buthaina Al Nasiri's work has been widely translated into European languages, but this is the first volume of her stories to appear in English, for which renowned translator Denys Johnson-Davies has selected work from a career of short-story writing spanning some thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eButhaina Al Nasiri, \u003c\/strong\u003e born in Iraq in 1947, graduated from the College of Arts of the University of Baghdad and has lived in Cairo since 1979, where she runs a publishing house that specializes in the works of Iraqi writers under UN sanctions. Five collections of her own short stories have been published in Arabic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDenys Johnson-Davies\u003c\/strong\u003e has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim\u003c\/em\u003e (AUC Press, 2008), \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Yusuf Idris \u003c\/em\u003e(AUC Press, 2009), and \u003cem\u003eThe Essential Naguib Mahfouz\u003c\/em\u003e (AUC Press, 2011). He was described by Edward Said as \"the leading Arabic English translator of our time.\" Johnson-Davies received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764977828128,"sku":"9789774161155","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/988c59baafa221d11e79caee8549b80c.webp?v=1780259284","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/final-night-short-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}