Catalogue of a Private Life: Short Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781912868728)

A collection of short stories by one of the Arab world's most accomplished and acclaimed writers.

A grandmother who takes on a thief trying to seduce her daughters. A guard who fantasises about killing his general while locked in battle with a non-existent enemy. A film script about Libya's traffic problems improvised at a workshop. A woman's letter from her old school, which is now a makeshift refugee camp. A cow straying into a field, breaking an age-old truce between warring factions. The eight stories of Catalogue of a Private Life feel like oft-recounted folktales, where the ordinary has been softly twisted several degrees.

Najwa Bin Shatwan navigates the tensions between loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret, and tenderness and cruelty to weave a portrait of family, war and nation against a stark backdrop of the completely absurd.

Author: Najwa Bin Shatwan
ISBN-10: 1912868725
ISBN-13: 9781912868728
Publisher: Dedalus
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2022
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 7.60h x 4.90w x 0.40d