| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Series |
Composition books ; no 5
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Composition books ; no 5.
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| Language |
Translated from the Arabic. |
| Note |
Originally published in Arabic in 2005. |
| Summary |
"One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in cafés, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours. These memories, and Ghitani's musings on memory's own finitude and mutability, make Traces both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals."--Publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ghīṭānī, Jamāl.
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Ghīṭānī, Jamāl. |
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Novelists, Arab -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, Arab. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Uthman, Nader K., translator
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| Added Title |
Dafātir al-tadwīn : Dafātir al-khamis English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: al-Ghitani, Gamal Traces : A Memoir La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press,c2020 9789774169533 |
| ISBN |
1617979759 |
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9781617979750 (electronic bk.) |
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9789774169533 |
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