Warda by Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahims 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character.-
Suspended Sentences
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The Dirty Dust
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The Orphanage
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Look at the Lights, My Love
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The Corpse Washer
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Graveyard Clay
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Tales of Tangier
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After the Circus
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Ballerina
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Sundays in August
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Diary
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Sleep of Memory
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We Computers
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The Holy Innocents
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The Last Lover
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The Walnut Mansion
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The Body of the Soul
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Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
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Invisible Ink
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Such Fine Boys
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The Children of the Dead
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Rosa Mistika
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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
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Five Spice Street
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Please Talk to Me
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Mesopotamia
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Exemplary Novels
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The Dregs of the Day
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No One Will Know You Tomorrow
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Barefoot Doctor
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How Fire Descends
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Late Fragments
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Anna Karenina
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Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander
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I Live in the Slums
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Arabesques
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Masters and Servants
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Paris Nocturne
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Scene of the Crime
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A Good and Dignified Life
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Family Record
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What We Live For, What We Die For
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Adonis
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The Origin of the World
“Hosam Aboul-Ela succeeds in capturing a tone that veers between idealism and a worldly indifferenceIt isn’t easy to get across Ibrahim’s simple, mirror-polished prose. . . . This version of Warda gets it just right.”—Amir-Hussein Radjy, Times Literary Supplement
“A splendid translation of an iconic novel. Warda lives beyond the past, in perpetual hope, love, loss, and search for liberation. History here is vessel or decoy. Sonallah Ibrahim is a genius.”—Fady Joudah, author of Tethered to Stars
“Haunted by the ghosts of Arab revolution, Sonallah Ibrahim’s Warda is an archive of left-wing hopes and an unsparing view of the present. From the wasteland of Mubarak-era Egypt, Ibrahim conjures a history of eros and upheaval—a timely reminder of what was and what might have been.”—Robyn Creswell, Yale University
“A masterful translation of a magnificent work by one the Arab world’s foremost novelists, this is a panoramic novel narrating the quest for the memory and meaning of a revolution, its time, and afterlives.”—Sinan Antoon, author of The Book of Collateral Damage
“At once a moving narrative of the brutal personal and political costs of decolonization and a precious historical document, Warda is a tour de force; an epic tale of revolution, love, and loss, brilliantly translated into English by Hosam Aboul-Ela.”—Samah Selim, Rutgers University
“An outstanding novel about beauty, friendship, and love.”—Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut
“A splendid translation of an iconic novel. Warda lives beyond the past, in perpetual hope, love, loss, and search for liberation. History here is vessel or decoy. Sonallah Ibrahim is a genius.”—Fady Joudah, author of Tethered to Stars
“Haunted by the ghosts of Arab revolution, Sonallah Ibrahim’s Warda is an archive of left-wing hopes and an unsparing view of the present. From the wasteland of Mubarak-era Egypt, Ibrahim conjures a history of eros and upheaval—a timely reminder of what was and what might have been.”—Robyn Creswell, Yale University
“A masterful translation of a magnificent work by one the Arab world’s foremost novelists, this is a panoramic novel narrating the quest for the memory and meaning of a revolution, its time, and afterlives.”—Sinan Antoon, author of The Book of Collateral Damage
“At once a moving narrative of the brutal personal and political costs of decolonization and a precious historical document, Warda is a tour de force; an epic tale of revolution, love, and loss, brilliantly translated into English by Hosam Aboul-Ela.”—Samah Selim, Rutgers University
“An outstanding novel about beauty, friendship, and love.”—Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut
Sonallah Ibrahim is a critically acclaimed Egyptian novelist. Trained in law at Cairo University, he worked as a journalist until he was arrested and imprisoned in 1959 for his political associations. Hosam Aboul‑Ela is a writer, translator, and literary critic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300228656 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300228651 |
| Title | Warda |
| Author | Sonallah Ibrahim |
| Series | The Margellos World Republic Of Letters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2021-07-13 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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