Goats by Liwaa Yazji
A play about the impact of war on a small town in Syria, by a leading Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker.'Disturbing, bitterly funny and caustically angry.. a painful and original piece about the terrible price of conflict and oppression'
* Financial Times *'Exposes the mixture of grotesquerie and cruelty that are aspects of civil war'
* Guardian *'Compelling... a darkly humorous lens through which to examine the messy, multi-sided, multi-storied conflict that is the Syrian Civil War'
* Exeunt Magazine *
Liwaa Yazji is a Syrian playwright, filmmaker, screenwriter and poet. She was born in Moscow and grew up in Damascus. Her plays include Goats (Royal Court, 2017). She has published a volume of poetry, Peacefully We Leave Home, and was resident poet at Poets House, New York, in 2015 where her book Three Poems was published in English. Katharine Halls is a Arabic-to-English translator with extensive experience in the translation of colloquial Arabic in both written and spoken forms. She has worked with Egyptian, Sudanese, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi and Algerian dialects, mainly focusing on translating literature and challenging non-fiction texts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848427204 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848427204 |
| Title | Goats |
| Author | Liwaa Yazji |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2017-11-23 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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