No windmills in Basra

No windmills in Basra

Ḍiyāʼ Jubaylī, 1977-

Book - 2022

"Influenced in turn by the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the magical realism of Latin America, the stories in No Windmills in Basra reflect the title city's somber history of war. Yet the fantastic and playful peek through, offering an astounding breadth of images in only a few lines per story. In "Flying," a security guard for a chicken plant discovers his own wings after a bomb explosion. In "The Taste of Death," long-buried Iraqi and Iranian soldiers rise from their unmarked graves, dissatisfied with the landscape's returning verdancy. Set in the author's hometown in southern Iraq, these fleeting stories oscillate between whimsy and tragedy"--

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Subjects
Surrealism > Fiction.
Baṣrah (Iraq) > Fiction.
Short stories.
Genres
Short stories
Published
Dallas : Deep Vellum Publishing 2022.
Language
English
Arabic
Main Author
Ḍiyāʼ Jubaylī, 1977- (author)
Other Authors
Chip Rossetti (translator)
Edition
First Deep Vellum edition
Item Description
Translated from the Arabic.
Physical Description
xvi, 202 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781646051861
  • Machine generated contents note: WARS
  • Flying
  • The Saltworks
  • The Gross-Out Olympics
  • Nation
  • The Scarecrow
  • The Taste of Death
  • Inheritance
  • Graveyard
  • The Frog
  • LOVE
  • The Scent of His Shirt
  • Smiles
  • Messages
  • Salma's Sparrows
  • The Dung Beetle
  • Stone
  • Fairuz
  • MOTHERS
  • The Photo
  • Films
  • Soot
  • The Universe
  • Jonah
  • The Ribbon
  • Tattoo
  • WOMEN
  • The Scent of Her Palm
  • Qamarhun
  • The Scent of Cherry Blossom
  • The Kohl Thieves
  • The Rose
  • The Handkerchief Woman
  • Saltiness
  • The Night Girl
  • Date
  • A Face the Color of Wheat
  • A Song
  • Djamila Bouhired
  • The Crow
  • The Woman
  • A Woman's Heart
  • Out for a Stroll
  • CHILDREN
  • The Comoro Islands
  • The Ghost
  • The Ball Boy
  • The Boot
  • Mexico '86
  • Syndrome
  • Dimple
  • Wordless
  • Huri
  • POETS
  • Walt Whitman's Beard
  • Wafiqa's Window
  • The Crocodile
  • Life Imitates Art
  • The English Cemetery
  • A Poet
  • Amira, The Girl Who Loved Colors
  • MISCELLANEOUS
  • Bull's Head
  • Warts Like Pegs
  • Death Stones
  • The Watchmaker
  • The Hat Stand
  • Death of the Author
  • Foreigners
  • The Protector of Women's Dreams
  • The Eraser
  • Traduttore, Traditore
  • The Eucalyptus Tree
  • Betrayal
  • A Song for Guevara
  • The Deadly Ecstatic Vision
  • The Licker
  • The Exchange
  • The Creep
  • Free
  • A Hundred Laylas and One Wolf
  • Soundtrack.

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