Homecoming: Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories

by Denys Johnson-Davies and E.J. Koh

Book Overview

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 977416654X
• ISBN13: 9789774166549
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"