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Austin. 1990. University Of Texas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0292720718. Translated from the Arabic by Desmond Stewart. 251 pages. hardcover. Cover illustration by Cathy Morley. Cover design by Sarah Dobinson/Artworkers London. keywords: Literature Translated Egypt Arabic. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A 12-year-old boy returns from his school in Cairo to find his village torn by feud and fear. A corrupt official has ordered the peasants to irrigate their fields in five days, instead of the customary ten a demand which threatens to disrupt the whole life of the village. - A schoolmaster, Sheikh Hassouna, urges the villagers to rebel. But it takes many attempts, some disastrous, others comical and touching, before they join forces and stand against their oppressors. Set in the 1930s, Sharqawi's novel was first published as al-Ard [The Earth] in 1954 two years after the Egyptian revolution and appeared in Desmond Stewart's excellent translation in 1962. It has…
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- Title Egyptian Earth
- Author Al-Sharqawi, Abdel Rahman
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- Pages 251 pp
- Publisher Univ of Texas Pr
- Date 1990-07
- ISBN 9780292720718
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