{"product_id":"the-book-of-sleep-paperback","title":"The Book of Sleep - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHaytham El Wardany\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Moger\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states--metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence--be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"My concern was not to create a literary product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as a methodology for thinking,\" El Wardany explains. In this volume, sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape a question. \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e is a generous and generative attempt to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities and constrictions.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaytham El Wardany\u003c\/b\u003e is an Egyptian writer of short stories and experimental prose who lives and works in Berlin. \u003cb\u003eRobin Moger\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Arabic prose and poetry based in Cape Town, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.95 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767677223200,"sku":"9780857429537","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6880f506b9407b170738ff6fc686f093.webp?v=1780315075","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-book-of-sleep-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}