Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-238).
Contents:
1: Setting the scene -- Putting 'Libya' back in Libyan short fiction -- In search of stories -- 2: Stories from the East -- Benghazi and environs -- The good-hearted salt seller / Sadiq Nayhoum -- Hotel Vienna / Wahbi Bouri -- The Quay and the rain / Ramadan Abdalla Bukheit -- My friends when I die / Abdel Raziq Al-Mansuri -- The yellow rock / Saleh Saad Younis -- The spontaneous journey / Najwa Ben Shetwan -- The mute / Abdullah Ali Al-Gazal -- Stories from the South -- The Sultain's Flotilla / Sadiq Nayhoum -- The locusts / Ahmed Ibrahim Fagih -- From door to door / Maryam Salama -- Mill Road / Ahmed Mohammed Lannaizy -- Stories from the West -- Tripoli and the Old City -- Caesar's return / Meftah Genaw -- The castle and the water / Ziad Ali -- The old hotel or Miloud and Rubina's story / Kamel Maghur -- Tripoli story / Lamia El-Makki -- Special edition / Ali Mustapha Misrati -- 3: Interpreting the stories -- On the Libyan short story -- Three generations of economic shock -- Migration -- Minorities -- The Libyan psyche -- Libyan women: moving backwards, forwards, or looking for a third way?
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