Basrayatha : the story of a city / Muhammad Khudayyir.

Main entry:

Khuḍayr, Muḥammad, 1942-

Title & Author:

Basrayatha : the story of a city / Muhammad Khudayyir.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2008.

Description:

194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Novel.
Includes bibliographical references.
First Exploration 1 -- Umm al-Brum: Banquet in a Cemetery 17 -- Shatt al-Arab: A River's Dream 37 -- Abu al-Khasib: Story Road 59 -- Al-Zubayr: The Camel's Eye 87 -- Mobile City 109 -- Friday's Gifts 127 -- Morning Airs and Nocturnes: A War Diary 145 -- Four Points of Entry to Basrayatha 163.

Summary:

Presents a fictionalized view of the Iraqi city of Basra.
Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shattal-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created through stories, experiences, and folklore. By turns a memoir, a travelog, a love letter, and a meditation, Basrayatha summons up a city long gone, yet which lives in the memories and imaginations of its people. -- Back cover.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

9781844672332 (paperback)
1844672336 (paperback)

Subject:

Baṣrah (Iraq) Fiction.
Iraq Baṣrah

Form/genre:

Fiction
Romans.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257459
Call No.: BIB 187955
Status: Available

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