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Lädt ... East Winds, West Winds: A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature)von Mahdi Issa al-Saqr
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Set in the 1950s, the novel’s plot follows Mohamed Ahmed, a quite perceptive character, who spends years working under the British in the oil fields. We join him on his trip to the camp where he is to spend years working with different and extreme characters such as Abu Jabbar, Hussein, and Istifan, and fall in and out of love with the traditions and social customs of the British Empire. Paul Starkey's elegant and lucid translation does justice to Al-Saqr's absorbing and subtle portrait of British colonialism in action. It shows the muted aspirations of the post-war generation of educated Iraqis with emotional and sociological acuity.
Originally published in Cairo in 1998, this carefully crafted novel represents a welcome addition to a body of literature that has so far received less than the attention it merits by comparison with that of Egypt and the Levant. Set among the oil wells of the Basra region of southern Iraq, where the writer spent much of his working life, the novel draws on the author's own experiences to paint a picture at once subtle and vivid of relations between the British and their local employees in the 1950s. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of the young, bookish narrator, who is clearly modeled on the author himself. It soon becomes clear that a world of difference separates the lives of Abu Jabbar, Hussein, Istifan, and the rest from that of their European bosses with their company dances and other strange social customs. Although the novel has a strongly nationalistic flavor, it is also suffused with a lingering sense of nostalgia for a gentler age, which will inevitably prompt reflections on the more recent British and US involvement in that unhappy country. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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