Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East
- Title
- Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, United States
- Genre
- Anthology
- Format
- Book
- Translations In This Collection
- Persian is Sugar
- The Blind Owl (Excerpt)
- Cold Ashes
- O People
- Iranian Women
- A woman's Place
- Sin
- Window
- Wind-Up Doll
- Those Days
- False Dawn
- Qom
- Faraway Star
- The Baboon Whose Buffoon Was Dead
- My China Doll
- The Playhouse
- I'm Still Thinking of That Crow
- The Song of Abraham in Fire
- Don't Read
- My Country, I Will Build You Again
- You Leave, I'll Stay
- I Am an Underground Man
- Doctor Azudi, the Professional
- Zadan! Nazadan!
- Hosseinzadeh, the Head Executioner
- The Shah and Hosseinzadeh
- The Grand Lady of My Soul
- Mrs. F Is a Fortunate Woman
- The Desirable Life of Mr. F
- Nostalgia
- Mountain Song
- The Dark Room
- The Girl Sleeping on Top of Oil
- Four Views of a Private Orange
- A Quarter to Destruction
- Blockage
- Inclination
- What?
- Hanging from the Trees of Babylon
- Medium
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Page Number
- 655
- ISBN / ISSN
- 9780393065855
- Does the translation have images?
- No
- Reviews
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Book Self Description
Featuring marvelous translations of works from countries as diverse as Morocco and Iran, Turkey and Pakistan, Tablet and Pen finally endows twentieth-century Middle Eastern literature with a primacy in the English language that it much deserves. Edited by Reza Aslan, this groundbreaking volume features new translations of stories and poems, essays and memoirs from Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu.
2
Khaled Hosseini
This landmark collection of writings from the modern Middle East reminds us of the region's magnificent and proud literary tradition. That would be gift enough. But the powerful voices within these pages also guide us past clichéd perceptions of the region as a hotbed for militants and extremists and bring to life the hopes, aspirations, and struggles—indeed the common humanity of one of the world's most diverse and fascinating regions.
