Short stories
إحدى وعشرون طلقة للنبي
Not translated into English
Elias Farkouh · 1982
Synopsis
The author's third collection of short stories, turned towards the places and people on the margins of Amman rather than towards heroes. In “Avo”, Awadis, an Armenian deprived of hearing and speech since childhood, who came to Amman after the fall of Jerusalem in 1948, stands at the entrance of the Hashem restaurant, in the city centre, and becomes the witness of the city. The stories capture death, desire and power in their various forms.
Context
Published in 1982, after al-Saf'a, in 1978, and Tuyur Amman tuhalliq munkhafida, in 1981, the book received the same year the prize for the best collection of stories awarded by the Jordanian Writers' Association. Wafiqa al-Masri points out in 2020 an experimental writing, in its construction as in its language, in which flashbacks link the past to the present and in which the city and its characters end up merging.
Who it is for
For discovering Amman through its margins and its humble folk, in the stories of a Jordanian writer and publisher.
Prizes and reception
For the poet Amjad Nasser, these stories form a world built in the image of the city and mingled with its living flesh.
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