The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories

by Osama Alomar

Book Overview

Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind's creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate new realities and make us see our reality anew. Reading Alomar's sly moral fables and sharp political allegories, the reader always sits up a little straighter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226077
• ISBN13: 9780811226073
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.9"