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5.0 out of 5 stars
Encapsulating and Real,
By Lina Fairchild (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: They Die Strangers (Cmes Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) (Paperback)
The book's eponymous novella and 13 short stories offer a passionate and ultimately autobiographical evocation of the life lived by many Yemenis as economic exiles abroad or in harsh conditions at home. The author, born in Ethiopia in 1940 to an Ethiopian mother and Yemeni shopkeeper father, was sent to study in Aden at age 14. He died in a plane crash in 1973. His vividly drawn characters grapple with issues arising from cultural displacement, poverty and fear of the unknown in a period of great political and social change in Yemen, yet the book has a wider and continuing resonance. In the novella, a nurse in Addis Ababa asks an Italian doctor shocked at the condition of his mortally ill Yemeni patient, "What else can these people do ... [but] leave their homes, country, family, to chase after a living?" Abdul-Wali's translators do a fine job captur-ing his realistic, efficiently phrased style in this first English publication of his work. APC
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They Die Strangers (Cmes Modern Middle East Literature in Translation) by Mu?ammad ?Abd al-Wal? (Paperback - January 15, 2002)
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