Stoning the Devil - Tapa blanda

Powell, Garry Craig

 
9781908011541: Stoning the Devil
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ISBN 10: 1908011548 ISBN 13: 9781908011541
Editorial: Skylight Press, 2012

Sinopsis

Stoning the Devil is a novel set in the United Arab Emirates, a country of paradoxes, of seediness and glamour, of desert grandeur and Disneyland vulgarity, where public executions and other barbaric customs are winked at by the western expats who run the economy. Colin, a professor of literature, is not the ’typical’ expat, ignorant and interested only in pleasure and his stock portfolio, but a speaker of Arabic and an admirer of Arab culture - or is he? To his Arab wife, he is an Orientalist who exoticizes and patronises the locals, unaware of his latent racism. Powell presents a complex and contradictory set of Arab characters, who are a far cry from fundamentalist stereotypes. He also gives women in the Gulf a voice -as none are completely submissive. Garry Craig Powell delivers a powerful novel-in-stories and perhaps the first work of literary fiction set in the Persian Gulf by a westerner since Hilary Mantel’s Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. It echoes all the concerns of the great Arab writers, Mahfouz, Munif, and Kanafani regarding the post-colonial world. Written by an author that spent a good deal of time in that part of the world, the Gulf is presented as a crucible in which people of different races and religions are forging a new humanity, in spite of the abysses between them.

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Acerca del autor

Born in England and educated at Cambridge University and Durham University, Garry Craig Powell is a fiction writer and professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He has lived in Spain, Poland, Portugal, the USA and the United Arab Emirates.

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Editorial
Skylight Press
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1908011548
ISBN 13 
9781908011541
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
150
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