Prairies of Fever - Couverture souple

Nasrallah, Ibrahim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 156656106X ISBN 13 : 9781566561068

Editeur : Interlink Books, 1998

Synopsis

Prairies of Fever is one of the foremost modernist novels of our time. A negation of chronology and sequence, a cohesve relationship between form and content, and a temporal parallelism of events, memories and dreams, give the novel a unique tenor. The central character, Muhammad Hammad, is a young teacher hired, like hundreds of others from all over the Arab world, to teach in a remote part of the Arabian peninsula. The novel recounts his harrowing struggle to retain any sense of identity at all in the bleak and alienating place he finds himself in, caught between the infinite expanse of desert and the intolerable narrowness of village life. His psychic and physical anguish, beset as he is by hallucinations, fantasies and the indifference of the villagers, is mirrored in the writing of the novel: time appears unfixed as the story jumps from past to future and back to the present; there is an eerie fusion of the animal and human worlds; and reality and fantasy become hard to distinguish. The result is an exceptional poetic novel, disturbing, evocative and deeply moving.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Palestinian poet and novelist living in Amman, Jordan. He has published several novels and collections of poetry to date, and has won great acclaim throughout the Arab world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Interlink Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 156656106X
• ISBN 13: 9781566561068
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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