The Resource Heads ripe for plucking, Mahmoud Al-Wardani ; translated by Hala Halim
Heads ripe for plucking, Mahmoud Al-Wardani ; translated by Hala Halim
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- Summary
- "An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical - torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head - are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body decapitated in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs."--Jacket
- Language
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- eng
- ara
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (v, 166 pages)
- Note
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- "First published in Arabic in 2002 as Awan al-qitaf"--Title page verso
- "Dar el Kutub No. 4341/08"--Title page verso
- Novel
- Original title: Awan al-qitaf (Harvest time)
- Label
- Heads ripe for plucking
- Title
- Heads ripe for plucking
- Statement of responsibility
- Mahmoud Al-Wardani ; translated by Hala Halim
- Language
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- eng
- ara
- eng
- Summary
- "An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical - torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head - are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body decapitated in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wardānī, Maḥmūd
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- In English translated from the Arabic
- LC call number
- PJ7870.A68
- LC item number
- A9313 2008
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Halim, Hala
- Series statement
- Modern Arabic literature
- Label
- Heads ripe for plucking, Mahmoud Al-Wardani ; translated by Hala Halim
- Note
-
- "First published in Arabic in 2002 as Awan al-qitaf"--Title page verso
- "Dar el Kutub No. 4341/08"--Title page verso
- Novel
- Original title: Awan al-qitaf (Harvest time)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource (v, 166 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)872641374
- Label
- Heads ripe for plucking, Mahmoud Al-Wardani ; translated by Hala Halim
- Note
-
- "First published in Arabic in 2002 as Awan al-qitaf"--Title page verso
- "Dar el Kutub No. 4341/08"--Title page verso
- Novel
- Original title: Awan al-qitaf (Harvest time)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- 1 online resource (v, 166 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)872641374
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