No Windmills in Basra No Windmills in Basra

No Windmills in Basra

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Publisher Description

A bold, imaginative collection of short stories set in Southern Iraq from prolific, award-winning novelist Diaa Jubaili.


Influenced in turn by the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the magical realism of Latin America, the stories in No Windmills in Basra reflect a reality tinged by the city’s history with war. Yet the fantastic and playful peek through, offering an astounding breadth of images in only a few lines per story. In “Mubarak,” a security guard for a chicken plant discovers his own wings after a bomb explosion. In “The Taste of Death,” long-buried Iraqi and Iranian soldiers rise from their unmarked graves, dissatisfied with the landscape’s returning verdancy. Set in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where the author still lives, these fleeting stories oscillate between whimsy and tragedy.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
August 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
180
Pages
PUBLISHER
Deep Vellum Publishing
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
8.5
MB
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