Heads Ripe for Plucking
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Ja
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Ja
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Nein
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2008
Verlag
I.B.TaurisSeitenzahl
176 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1125 KB
Übersetzt von
Hala Halim
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781617974243
An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "e;I see heads that are ripe for plucking."e; In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical-torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head-are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs.
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