Tarek Eltayeb
Autore di Cities Without Palms
Opere di Tarek Eltayeb
Palm House 1 copia
Städte ohne Dattelpalmen Roman 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations (2006) — Collaboratore — 157 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1959
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- Cairo, Egypt
- Luogo di residenza
- Vienna, Austria
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 29
- Popolarità
- #460,290
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 1
By sally tarbox on 22 March 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Short (90p) novella which opens in a remote Sudanese village; narrator Hamza is mulling over his lot - his father has gone off with another women leaving him and his mother and sisters. In a disease and famine-stricken region, there is no future for them:
"I look at the child and his two large, expectant eyes seem to cover his entire face. One of his hands clutches his mother's breast and the other her braids, and all the while flies gather around his eyes and pustules; they crowd around the wounds of his rickety body. Then they move to his mouth, hoping to share in his mother's milk; but nothing is there, so they return to assailing his emaciated body, falling upon its every wound - if there is no milk then let there be blood."
And so Hamza sets out to seek his fortune, first to Cairo and then into Europe. Uncertainty, poverty, racism, border guards... this is a very readable little work which I read in one sitting. I can't say it's hugely memorable although there are some well-written passages. But brings the plight of the immigrant to life.… (altro)