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McSweeney's Issue 76 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Aftershocks (Syrian Fiction)

Dave Eggers
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At this urgent time of crisis, McSweeney’s 76: Aftershocks presents a collection of contemporary Syrian prose — short stories, novel excerpts, and plays — that chronicles the literal and metaphorical earthquakes that haunt the Syrian people. Guest-edited by acclaimed Syrian American journalist Alia Malek, and encompassing the work of eight Arabic translators and sixteen Syrian writers (some of which have never before been translated in English), these contributors write across diasporic and refugee experiences, as well as from inside present-day Syria. In these pages, skeletons fall in love, Damascus alleys become time portals, letters tucked in bullet wounds reanimate the dead, minarets gush blood, and photographs become more human than humans. The requisite actors in these stories, and in any conflict (and crime) — victim, killer, survivor — are blurred and intimate. Magical realism, the absurd, and the surreal course through these pages. These stories ask us to imagine the unimaginable. They ask not “what is real?” but rather “how can this be real?”
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318 pages
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ISBN10:
1963270045
ISBN13:
9781963270044
kindle Asin:
1963270045

McSweeney's Issue 76 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Aftershocks (Syrian Fiction)

Dave Eggers
3.90/5 (31 ratings)
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At this urgent time of crisis, McSweeney’s 76: Aftershocks presents a collection of contemporary Syrian prose — short stories, novel excerpts, and plays — that chronicles the literal and metaphorical earthquakes that haunt the Syrian people. Guest-edited by acclaimed Syrian American journalist Alia Malek, and encompassing the work of eight Arabic translators and sixteen Syrian writers (some of which have never before been translated in English), these contributors write across diasporic and refugee experiences, as well as from inside present-day Syria. In these pages, skeletons fall in love, Damascus alleys become time portals, letters tucked in bullet wounds reanimate the dead, minarets gush blood, and photographs become more human than humans. The requisite actors in these stories, and in any conflict (and crime) — victim, killer, survivor — are blurred and intimate. Magical realism, the absurd, and the surreal course through these pages. These stories ask us to imagine the unimaginable. They ask not “what is real?” but rather “how can this be real?”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
318 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1963270045
ISBN13:
9781963270044
kindle Asin:
1963270045

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