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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590173422
ISBN-13
9781590173428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73579268
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wedding of Zein
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Small Town & Rural, Humorous / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-036057
Reviews
"Tayeb Salih is one of those writers who come upon us stealthily. We welcome them, but discover, after they leave, that they have stolen something precious from us. They have made it imperative for us to reconsider everything." --Ali Al-Rai "This book. . . has timelessness and universality. . . humanity and abundant humor in all hues. . . insights and worldliness and awareness." -- London Tribune " The Wedding of Zein presents a view of rural life so resilient it seems capable of withstanding challenge from any quarter...Salih weaves the story of Zein's life forward and backward, touching nearly everyone..." - The Christian Science Monitor "What I find particularly attractive about Mr. Salih's way of writing is his attitude to the village people he describes. All of them are seen in a humourous way; the reader is invited to laugh at them, or at least to smile. And yet this humour is fundamentally kind; even at their most ridiculous, all the characters retain an essential dignity." -Kingsley Amis "These three stories are interesting, formally, because they show what happens when a considerable sophistication and resourcefulness of technique is applied to traditional storytelling material." - The Guardian (London) "A group of three sympathetic, well-told tales of Sudanese village life." - The Listener "It is certainly time that [Salih] be better known in America." --The Christian Science Monitor, "Tayeb Salih is one of those writers who come upon us stealthily. We welcome them, but discover, after they leave, that they have stolen something precious from us. They have made it imperative for us to reconsider everything." -Ali Al-Rai "This book. . . has timelessness and universality. . . humanity and abundant humor in all hues. . . insights and worldliness and awareness." -London Tribune "The Wedding of Zeinpresents a view of rural life so resilient it seems capable of withstanding challenge from any quarter…Salih weaves the story of Zein's life forward and backward, touching nearly everyone..." The Christian Science Monitor "What I find particularly attractive about Mr. Salih's way of writing is his attitude to the village people he describes. All of them are seen in a humourous way; the reader is invited to laugh at them, or at least to smile. And yet this humour is fundamentally kind; even at their most ridiculous, all the characters retain an essential dignity." Kingsley Amis "These three stories are interesting, formally, because they show what happens when a considerable sophistication and resourcefulness of technique is applied to traditional storytelling material." The Guardian(London) "A group of three sympathetic, well-told tales of Sudanese village life." The Listener "It is certainly time that [Salih] be better known in America."--TheChristian Science Monitor, "Tayeb Salih is one of those writers who come upon us stealthily. We welcome them, but discover, after they leave, that they have stolen something precious from us. They have made it imperative for us to reconsider everything." -Ali Al-Rai "This book. . . has timelessness and universality. . . humanity and abundant humor in all hues. . . insights and worldliness and awareness." - London Tribune " The Wedding of Zein presents a view of rural life so resilient it seems capable of withstanding challenge from any quarter…Salih weaves the story of Zein's life forward and backward, touching nearly everyone..." The Christian Science Monitor "What I find particularly attractive about Mr. Salih's way of writing is his attitude to the village people he describes. All of them are seen in a humourous way; the reader is invited to laugh at them, or at least to smile. And yet this humour is fundamentally kind; even at their most ridiculous, all the characters retain an essential dignity." Kingsley Amis "These three stories are interesting, formally, because they show what happens when a considerable sophistication and resourcefulness of technique is applied to traditional storytelling material." The Guardian (London) "A group of three sympathetic, well-told tales of Sudanese village life." The Listener "It is certainly time that [Salih] be better known in America." --The Christian Science Monitor, "The Wedding of Zeinpresents a view of rural life so resilient it seems capable of withstanding challenge from any quarter…Salih weaves the story of Zein's life forward and backward, touching nearly everyone..." The Christian Science Monitor "What I find particularly attractive about Mr. Salih's way of writing is his attitude to the village people he describes. All of them are seen in a humourous way; the reader is invited to laugh at them, or at least to smile. And yet this humour is fundamentally kind; even at their most ridiculous, all the characters retain an essential dignity." Kingsley Amis "I have 'discovered' Tayeb Salih-discovered him somewhat after several million Arabic readers, who rate him among their best if notthebest. This book, a short novel and two stories, superbly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies, has timelessness and universality."The London Tribune "These three stories are interesting, formally, because they show what happens when a considerable sophistication and resourcefulness of technique is applied to traditional storytelling material." The Guardian(London) "A group of three sympathetic, well-told tales of Sudanese village life." The Listener "It is certainly time that [Salih] be better known in America." --Christian Science Monitor
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
892.7/36
Synopsis
"The Wedding of Zein" unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting married--Zein the freak, Zein who burst into laughter the moment he was born and has kept women and children laughing ever since, Zein who lost all his teeth at six and whose face is completely hairless, Zein married at last? Zein's particular role in the life of the village has been the peculiar one of falling in love again and again with girls who promptly marry another man. It would be unheard of for him to get married himself. In Tayeb Salih's wonderfully agile telling, the story of how this miracle came to be is one that engages the tensions that exist in the village, or indeed in any community: tensions between the devout and the profane, the poor and the propertied, the modern and the traditional. In the end, however, Zein's ridiculous good luck augurs an ultimate reconciliation, opening a prospect of a world made whole. Salih's classic novella appears here with two of his finest short stories, "The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid" and "A Handful of Dates."
LC Classification Number
PJ7862.A564M313 2010
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