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Book Description: Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson Davies brings together in this collection a colorful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner of war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a cat at the height of an Iraqi summer; the ill fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya; and a novel way of hunting ducks in the Nile Delta. The purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Gamal al Ghitani, and Mohamed El Bisatie from Egypt; Fuad al Takarli and Mohamed Khudayyir from Iraq; Zakaria Tamer from Syria; Hanan al Shaykh from Lebanon; and Ibrahim al Kouni from Libya.

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