Publisher:
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York
"Set in a fictitious Syrian neighbourhood called "al-Qaweyq," "Sour Grapes" is a compilation of 59 stand-alone short stories with underlying connections of theme, characters and perspective that knit the work together. Written in literary Arabic with...
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"Set in a fictitious Syrian neighbourhood called "al-Qaweyq," "Sour Grapes" is a compilation of 59 stand-alone short stories with underlying connections of theme, characters and perspective that knit the work together. Written in literary Arabic with sprinkles of Syrian colloquialisms, -all translated into English- the stories in this collection touch on themes as varied as gender inequality, incompetent governments and regimes, long-standing social customs, Western colonisation, abuse of authority and Syrian national identity"--
