He is also a monstrous product of his time | Tall and odd-looking, with just two teeth in his mouth, Zein has made a reputation for himself as the man who falls in love over and over with girls who promptly marry other men, — to the point where mothers seek him out in hopes that he will draw the eye of available suitors to their eligible daughters |
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In Janadriyah and Assilah, 2005• The Damascus-based Arab Literary Academy named it one of the best novels in Arabic of the twentieth century | A quote from his novel [ ] "We are by the standards of the European industrialized world, poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather, I feel rich, as if I were a tune from the heartbeat of the universe itself |
Hassan, Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction, Syracuse University Press, 2003.
28Memories of the seasons 2005• Mustafa Sa'eed, the main protagonist of the novel, is a child of British colonialism, and a fruit of colonial education | " Furthermore, the motifs of his books are derived from his Islamic background and his experience of 20th-century Africa, both pre- and post-colonial |
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Flood, Alison 19 February 2009 | The shining stars are like the stars of the Arab and Frankish flags, 2005• Lynx Qualey, Marcia 24 February 2015 |
Another, more general subject of Salih's writing is the confrontation of the and the Western European world.
8Mansi is a rare human in his way 2004 Themes of some of his magazine articles, published in Arabic:• The main concern of the novel is with the impact of and European modernity on rural African societies in general, and on Sudanese culture and identity in particular | Lynx Qualey, Marcia 11 November 2020 |
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Introductions 2009 Death [ ] He died on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 in London | It was first published in the Beirut journal |
"The Wedding of Zein" was made into a drama in and won filmmaker Khalid Siddiq an award at the in the late 1970s.
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