Five Days Untold - Couverture souple

Ahmad, Badr

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788710835 ISBN 13 : 9781788710831

Editeur : Dar Arab, 2021

Synopsis

Longlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, Five Days Untold narrates the story of a young conscript forced to leave his village and family behind to fight in a bloody and senseless civil war that has raged on for years. Without proper training and his very survival dependent on the vagaries of fate, Ziad must face the unknown alone as he struggles to find his way back home.

As atrocities and instability continue to roil the Middle East, this novel is a timely and sensitive portrayal of the true cost of conflict. Rich in pathos and filled with vivid imagery and cinematic scenes, Five Days Untold paints an unflinching portrait of war on a micro level and weaves together themes related to fate, agency, and the sustaining power of family bonds. Through the multiple perspectives of its characters, the novel skillfully brings into sharp focus the horrors of war while offering a dark meditation on how the past, both collective and individual, impacts the present. And while Ziad’s hellish experience as an army conscript is personal, his struggle and determination to survive are instantly recognizable, drawing the reader deeper into the human dimension of war and conflict.

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À propos des auteurs

He received his primary, preparatory and secondary education in Al-Qaeda city schools. He began writing the story in the fifth year of primary school, and in the middle school he got acquainted with the writings of Nabil Farouk, and this was a major turning point in his journey of informing him and in his life as a whole. There is a wealth of both world and Arabic literature and the rest of the knowledge, and during that period he began writing some articles and a series of various short stories. After his high school education, he was received by the labor market before the universities received him, then he joined a private university, and even during that period he did not give up reading or writing, which I viewed as an urgent need to empty feelings and express a point of view about what is going on around him. He published his first novel, Black Rain, in 2012.

Christiaan James is an American diplomat and literary translator. He holds a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and has lived and worked throughout the Middle East and North Africa, including Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt. His first translation of Yemeni author Badr Ahmad’s Five Days Untold was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness prize in 2022.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dar Arab
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788710835
• ISBN 13: 9781788710831
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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