Gretchen McCullough

Broschiertes Buch

Shahrazad's Gift

Beschreibung

Shahrazad's Gift is a collection of linked short stories, set in an apartment building in contemporary Cairo, with a cast of flamboyant, unlikely characters, who seem to have stepped out of A Thousand and One Nights.

Autor

Gretchen McCullough was raised in Harlingen Texas. After graduating from Brown University in 1984, she taught in Egypt, Turkey and Japan. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and was awarded a teaching Fulbright to Syria from 1997-1999.  Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Barcelona Review, Archipelago, National Public Radio, Story South, Guernica, The Common, The Millions, and the LA Review of Books. Translations in English and Arabic have been published in: Nizwa, Banipal, Brooklyn Rail in Translation, World Literature Today and Washington Square Review with Mohamed Metwalli. Her bi-lingual book of short stories in English and Arabic, Three Stories from Cairo, translated with Mohamed Metwalli was published in July 2011 by AFAQ Publishing House, Cairo.  Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cune Press, US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781951082437
• ISBN-10: 1951082435
• Artikelnr.: 68295168