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Bezig met laden... The Teeth of the Comb and Other Storiesdoor Osama Alomar
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The short stories in this collection range far and wide with people, personified animals, and more as the main characters in these fable-like parables and allegories. Originally written in Arabic by a Syrian author now living in the United States, each one is anywhere from a sentence or two to a few pages long. In a sense they were very poetic, and I didn't always feel like I understood everything about every one. But they were intriguing, and I spent a pleasant afternoon reading them all. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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, and a little wiser. Here is the title story: Some of the teeth of the comb were envious of the class differences that exist between humans. They strived desperately to increase their height, and, when they succeeded, began to look with disdain on their colleagues below. After a little while the comb's owner felt a desire to comb his hair. But when he found the comb in this state he threw it in the garbage. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)892.7Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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I will be adding a copy of this book to my personal collection, since I know I’ll want to resample it. ( )