{"product_id":"a-dog-with-no-tail-hamdi-abu-golayyel-9789774167362","title":"A Dog with No Tail","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring novelist and construction laborer of the lowest order, leads us down a fractured path of reminiscence in his quest for purpose and identity in a world where the old orders and traditions are powerless to help. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBawdy and wistful, tragicomic and bitter, his stories loop and repeat, crackling with the frictive energy of colliding worlds and linguistic registers. These are the tales of Cairo's new Bedouin, men not settled by the state but permanently uprooted by it. Like their lives, their stories are dislocated and unplotted, mapping out their quest for meaning in the very act of placing brick on brick and word on word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamdi Abu Golayyel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9774167368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789774167362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American University in Cairo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.50d","brand":"Hamdi Abu Golayyel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962744361215,"sku":"9789774167362","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5eaed59d-ae05-480e-b6e3-70483eb7b743.jpg?v=1750652398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-dog-with-no-tail-hamdi-abu-golayyel-9789774167362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}