story: The Country Boyauthor: Yusuf al-Sibaiyear: ? (early 20th century) where: home, kitchen table (again!) note: translated by the great Denys Johnson-Davis, who was the first, really, to recognize the explosion of Arabic short story writing following WWII a line: “Though he looked silent and quiet, it was a case of still waters running deep. With closed eyes and lowered head, all shyness and diffidence, he would sit beside his father, oozing innocence, when all the time there wasn’t a brothel or hashish den in Tanta he hadn’t patronized.”
samantha Neugebauer 