The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key Texts

by Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani

Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani look in depth at four authors who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing. They analyse the key texts by Abd al-Malik Nuri, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, Mahdi Isa al-Saqr and Fu'ad al-Takarli, evaluating and comparing their aesthetic and poetic qualities. It is in these works that Iraqi fiction came of age and reached artistic maturity. The best of them are among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748641416
• ISBN13: 9780748641413
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"