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Cry in a Long Night

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

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Cry in a Long Night opens with Amin Samaa, a young man, walking the length of his native city on a stormy night. He is on his way to the palace of his employer, the aristocratic heiress Inayat Yasser, who has employed him as a writer to work on a grand history of her Ottoman family. On his night journey across the city, Amin recalls his idyllic childhood in a nearby village, his father's death when he was just ten years old, and his family's move to the city's poorest quarters. Thoughts of his estranged wife, Sumaya Shanoub, haunt him continually and her sudden reappearance forces him to make a decision that will change his life drastically.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Darf Publishers
  • Publish Date: Sep 20th, 2022
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.10in - 0.80in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9781850773436
  • Categories: • World Literature - Middle East - Arabian Peninsula• World Literature - Middle East - Egypt & North Africa

About the Author

William Tamplin is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in 2020. He is the author of Poet of Jordan: The Political Poetry of Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

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William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, translated the 1955 Arabic novel "Cry in a Long Night" into English. The translation was published earlier this year by @DarfPublishers. Read about Tamplin's journey learning and translating #Arabic. @arablit https://t.co/rmOS4A2TyC https://t.co/o843rCBRCY

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How do you translate a novel originally written in English into English? This is the dilemma that William Tamplin faced when he first began translating Palestinian novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's Cry in a Long Night. Read more in this insightful interview: https://t.co/oiFRrsA0e5

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Your editorially independent source for Harvard news, arts, culture, and more. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://t.co/uXY0TEoKt4

William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20, translated the 1955 Arabic novel "Cry in a Long Night" into English. The translation was published earlier this year by @DarfPublishers. Read about Tamplin's journey learning and translating #Arabic. @arablit https://t.co/rmOS4A2TyC https://t.co/o843rCBRCY

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Asymptote Journal
@asymptotejrnl
2 years

The premier site for world literature. London Book Fair Award winner. Free quarterly issues, daily blog. Sign up for our newsletters: https://t.co/QbtmO03Z3l

How do you translate a novel originally written in English into English? This is the dilemma that William Tamplin faced when he first began translating Palestinian novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's Cry in a Long Night. Read more in this insightful interview: https://t.co/oiFRrsA0e5

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