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The Slave Yards: Middle East Literature In Translation

Autor Najwa Bin Shatwan Traducere de Nancy Roberts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mai 2020
Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan's powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily married with two children and working. When her cousin Ali unexpectedly enters her life, Atiqa learns the true identity of her parents, both long deceased, and slowly builds a friendship with Ali as they share stories of their past.
We learn of Atiqa's childhood, growing up in the slave yards, a makeshift encampment on the outskirts of Benghazi for Black Africans who were brought to Libya as slaves. Ali narrates the tragic life of Atiqa's mother, Tawida, a black woman enslaved to a wealthy merchant family who finds herself the object of her master's desires. Though such unions were common in slave-holding societies, their relationship intensifies as both come to care deeply for each other and share a bond that endures throughout their lives. Shortlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Ficiton, Bin Shatwan's unforgettable novel offers a window into a dark chapter of Libyan history and illuminates the lives of women with great pathos and humanity.
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ISBN-13: 9780815611257
ISBN-10: 0815611250
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 151 x 226 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Syracuse University Press
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Notă biografică

Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist. She is the author of several short story collections, plays, and three novels including The Horses' Hair and Orange Content. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by the Beirut39 project of the Hay Festival.
Nancy Roberts is a free-lance Arabic-to-English translator. Her literary translations include Salwa Bakr's The Man From Bashmour, Ibrahim Nasrallah's Gaza Weddings and Time of White Horses, for which she was awarded the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding.

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Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan's powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. Shortlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Ficiton, Bin Shatwan's unforgettable novel offers a window into a dark chapter of Libyan history.