| Description |
1 online resource (160 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Journeying Toward the Tales -- Khalid Bakhit -- The One-Line Song -- A Billion Years of Passion -- The Call to Prayer Duo -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- The Dream's Eyelids, the Fluttering of Time -- The Awaited Trial Council -- Ayda -- Passing before the Lovesick Balconies -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- Some Coups Are an Existential Necessity -- The Fatiha of the Gorged Bellies -- Walad Sulaymi -- Dreams Are Canvases That Capture Many a Ravine -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- The Flood of Death, the Flood of Birth -- Khadim Walad al-Sayl |
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Son of All, Beloved of No One -- The Illustrious Marketplace -- Here's Bangladesh -- Khalid Bakhit -- Running Away from a Dead Man -- Epiphanies in the Presence of the Saturnine -- The Sanctity of the Dead -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- No to Imports! -- The Saturnine Poet -- Games That Ever End -- A Thousand and One Ruses -- Let Thy Heart Be a Cloud -- Ayda -- Waiting -- Spirits That Are Bound to Meet -- Walad Sulaymi -- The Strange Dawn -- History Is a Failed Thief -- Khalid Bakhit -- The Messages Are for Me Alone -- The Warning -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- How Zealously the Wind Guards the Mud |
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In Absence There Is Also Experimentation -- Between the Two Calms, a Storm . . . Between the Two Storms, a Calm! -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- Modernity May Invade the Leadership -- Khalid Bakhit -- Footsteps in the Dark -- On Our Shoulders We Carried Our Fates, the Fates No Forehead Could Bear -- Walad Sulaymi -- Council of Silence -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha -- The Night When Daytime Paid Us a Visit -- Khadim Walad al-Sayl -- O Sorrow, Wring Us Dry! -- Walad Sulaymi -- The Prayer of the Fearful -- Khalid Bakhit -- The Messages Are for You Alone -- Suhayl al-Jamra al-Khabitha |
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The Dead Can Sometimes Do Harm -- Khadim Walad al-Sayl -- A Predawn Tryst -- Mihyan ibn Khalaf -- At Dawn Stories Are Born -- Glossary |
| Summary |
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked by his flight from a painful love affair, coincides with events that reveal the force of long-established traditions that have a stranglehold on the town: from racial prejudice, to religious bigotry, to ossified patterns of leadership. Khalid's awakening and transformation are catalyzed by his encounter |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Arabic fiction -- 21st century -- Translations into English
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Arabic fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roberts, Nancy
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| ISBN |
9781617973383 |
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1617973386 |
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