{"product_id":"heads-ripe-for-plucking-mahmoud-al-wardani-9789774161889","title":"Heads Ripe for Plucking","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mahmoud Al-Wardani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9774161882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789774161889\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 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Mahmoud Al-Wardani","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47474387583231,"sku":"9789774161889","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4f08df3-f46c-44da-9ab2-89fbdcd351ef.jpg?v=1762316411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/heads-ripe-for-plucking-mahmoud-al-wardani-9789774161889","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}