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100 1 $6880-01$aBadrī, Hālah.
240 10 $aMuntahá.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMuntaha /$cHala El Badry ; translated by Nancy Roberts.
260 $aCairo ;$aNew York :$bAmerican University in Cairo Press,$c2006.
300 $a215 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aModern Arabic literature
500 $a"First published in Arabic in 1995 as Muntaha"--Title page verso.
530 $aAlso issued online.
520 1 $a"Set in the sleepy Egyptian village of Muntaha during the late 1940s, this novel paints a portrait of rural life in Egypt that is both moving and memorable. Between the turbulent events of 1948 and the final years of the British presence in Egypt, the village's inhabitants find themselves caught up against their will in the swirl of larger world events, although their daily lives, concerns, and beliefs are grounded in the timeless nature of a rural past. Hala El Badry's narrative depicts, in intimate detail, her characters' relationships, not only to each other but to the natural environment that surrounds them: from fishing on the Nile and cotton and corn harvests, to chicks raised to be members of the family, crazed bulls, hordes of ravenous locusts, and donkeys and sparrows gone tipsy on overripe fruit." "The trials and fortunes of Taha Musaylihi, the mayor of Muntaha, together with those of his extended family, form the backbone of this tale of real life in the guise of fiction. Confronted with the fear and injustices born of war and foreign occupation, as well as the insecurity of their dependency on Nature and her forces, Taha joins the village farmers in valiant defiance of their British occupiers."--Jacket.
546 $aTranslated from the Arabic.
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700 1 $aRoberts, Nancy N.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBadrī, Hālah.$sMuntahá. English.$tMuntaha.$dCairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2006$w(OCoLC)607906563
830 0 $aModern Arabic literature.
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