Heads Ripe for Plucking by Al-Wardani, Mahmoud

Heads Ripe for Plucking (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789774161889)

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Heads Ripe for Plucking by Al-Wardani, Mahmoud

Heads Ripe for Plucking

$24.95
Heads Ripe for Plucking by Al-Wardani, Mahmoud

Heads Ripe for Plucking

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical--torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head--are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs.

Author: Mahmoud Al-Wardani
ISBN-10: 9774161882
ISBN-13: 9789774161889
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.70d
By Mahmoud Al-Wardani
By Mahmoud Al-Wardani
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Mahmoud Al-Wardani, born in Cairo in 1950, is a writer and cultural journalist. He is the author of six novels and three collections of short stories.


Hala Halim teaches at New York University. Her translation of Mohamed El-Bisatie's Clamor of the Lake (AUC Press, 2004) won an Egyptian State Incentive Award.

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