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The Essential Yusuf Idris: Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story

By Yusuf Idris, Denys Johnson-Davies (Editor), Wadida Wassef (Translator), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Roger Allen (Translator), R. Neil Hewison (Translator), Mona Mikhail (Translator), Catherine Cobham (Translator), Ragia Fahmi (Translator), Saneya Shaarawi (Translator), Christopher Tingley (Translator)
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By Yusuf Idris, Denys Johnson-Davies (Editor), Wadida Wassef (Translator), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator), Roger Allen (Translator), R. Neil Hewison (Translator), Mona Mikhail (Translator), Catherine Cobham (Translator), Ragia Fahmi (Translator), Saneya Shaarawi (Translator), Christopher Tingley (Translator)
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A carefully curated collection of short story masterpieces from the "genius of the short story" (Tawfiq al-Hakim) and the Arab world's greatest short-story writer of the twentieth century, now available in paperback

''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters into convincing types within their context: he makes us live their agonies and hopes.''—Ferial Ghazoul

Yusuf Idris (1927–91), wh...

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FictionLiteratureWorld FictionShort StoriesAfrican FictionMiddle Eastern FictionShort Story CollectionsEgyptian FictionArabic Short Stories