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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Fiction | Fiction Books | FIC BERR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5194648 |
FIC BERG Adventures of the artificial woman / | FIC BERN Birds without wings / | FIC BERR The amber room / | FIC BERR Like a summer never to be repeated / | FIC BEST 2003 The best American mystery stories. | FIC BEST 2003 The best American mystery stories. | FIC BIHR The little black fish and other modern Persian stories / |
Originally published in Arabic in 1999 as Mithla sayf lan yatakarrar.
"Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is a fascinating and highly experimental story based loosely around the author's own experiences in Egypt as a Moroccan student and visiting intellectual. In Cairo the narrator, Hammad, takes us on a deeply personal journey of discovery from the heady days of the 1950s and 1960s, with all the optimism and excitement surrounding Moroccan independence, Suez, and Abdel Nasser, up to the 1990s and the time of writing, revealing an individual intensely concerned with Arab life and culture. Meanwhile, his regular visits to Cairo allow us watch a culture in transition over four decades. Exploring themes of change, the role of culture in society, memory, and writing, in a text that combines narrative fiction with literary criticism, philosophical musings, and quotation, Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated is among the most innovative works of modern Arabic literature and a testimony to Mohammed Berrada's position as a leading pioneer of modern Arabic writing."--Jacket.
880-01 Translation of : Mithla �sayf lan yatakarrar.
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