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03262aam a2200493 i 4500 001 1FECC6EC78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 201006t20202020txu s000 j eng d 010 $a 2020947461 020 $a 1477322280 020 $a 9781477322284 035 $a (OCoLC)1235818968 040 $a IKM $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d QGQ $d TOH $d PAU $d GZN $d AU@ $d MEAUC $d CDX $d IKM $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ara 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a a-sy--- 050 00 $a PJ7966.J39 $b B43 2020 082 04 $a 892.7/37 $2 23 086 $a Z UA380.8 UJ1be $2 txdocs 100 1 $a Ê»UjayliÌ, ShahlaÌ, $e author. 245 12 $a A bed for the king's daughter : $b stories / $c by Shahla Ujayli ; translated by Sawad Hussain. 264 1 $a Austin : $b Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, $c [2020] 300 $a viii, 62 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Emerging voices from the Middle East 520 $a A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women's agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In "The Memoir of Cinderella's Shoes" Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to take justice into her own hands. In "Tell Me About Surrealism", an art history professor's writing assignment reveals the slipperiness of storytelling, and in "Merry Christmas", the realities of apartheid interfere with one family's celebration. Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates with brevity and inventiveness themes relevant to both the particularities of life in the Arab world and life outside it. 546 $a Translated from the Arabic. 505 00 $g 21. $t Successful Strikes. $g 2. $t Christmas -- $g 3. $t Um Al-Ghayth -- $g 4. $t Dead Man's Hand -- $g 5. $t My Country, My Love -- $g 6. $t The Night the Building Collapsed -- $g 7. $t The Octopus -- $g 8. $t A Mother's Final Words -- $g 9. $t Precious Stones -- $g 10. $t Fainting -- $g 11. $t An Incident in Town -- $g 12. $t The Strangest Thing That Happened to me in 2010 -- $g 13. $t Sitt Najmiyyah's House -- $g 14. $t Gun License -- $g 15. $t A Bed for the King's Daughter -- $g 16. $t Wishing Tree -- $g 17. $t Greek Discussions -- $g 18. $t Environmental Safety -- $g 19. $t Lilith -- $g 20. $t Kind Hearts -- $g 21. $t Successful Strikes. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 651 0 $a Syria $x History $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Syria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208757 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726740 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Hussain, Sawad, $e translator. 880 10 $6 240-00/r $a سرÙر بÙت اÙÙ ÙÙ. $l English 830 0 $a Emerging voices from the Middle East. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1FECC6EC78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search