{"product_id":"9780957442436-banipal-48-autumnwinter-2013","title":"BANIPAL 48 - Narrating Marrakech","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarrakech is a city of narration, and \u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 48\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003epresents enthralling voices from the \"kingdom of the improbable, one where reality is creatively rewritten\", as \u003cstrong\u003eJuan Goytisolo\u003c\/strong\u003e describes the city in his introduction to \u003cem\u003eMarrakech: Open Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e, the first text of the feature. We invite readers to partake in many sublime moments of the real and seemingly unreal through the writings of poets and authors from Marrakech: \u003cstrong\u003eYassin Adnan \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eSaad Sarhan\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose recent book \u003cem\u003eMarrakech, Open Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e, has been translated especially for this issue; the painter novelist \u003cstrong\u003eMahi Binebine\u003c\/strong\u003e, who never fails to captivate, and his new novel \u003cem\u003eThe Lord will reward you\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eAbu Youssef Taha \u003c\/strong\u003ebrings a couple of black tales with a twist; \u003cstrong\u003eRajae Benchemsi\u003c\/strong\u003e writes of Bahia, the henna painter, and describes Marrakech as \"a cosmic uterus\"; \u003cstrong\u003eMohamed Nedali\u003c\/strong\u003e's fascinating debut novel \u003cem\u003ePrime Cuts: An Apprentice Butcher's Life \u0026amp; Loves\u003c\/em\u003e will at last be published in English; \u003cstrong\u003eAnis Arafai \u003c\/strong\u003egives readers three alternative short stories while \u003cstrong\u003eTaha Adnan \u003c\/strong\u003epresents three scenarios on the lure of the East and \"the winds of Westernization\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe invite you enjoy this singular literary celebration of Morocco's Red City lying at the foot of the Atlas mountains and join us at the launch on 12 November.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 48\u003c\/strong\u003e also includes works by two more Moroccan authors, poets making waves – the well-known \u003cstrong\u003eMubarak Wassat\u003c\/strong\u003e, and newcomer \u003cstrong\u003eKarima Nadir\u003c\/strong\u003e, writing about the coastal city of Casablanca. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eLiterary Influences\u003c\/em\u003e essay by Egyptian author \u003cstrong\u003eMansoura Ez-Eldin\u003c\/strong\u003e admirably complements \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNarrating Marrakech\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. She explains how she was lured by her grandmother's storytelling to train her imagination \"to swim in the trackless spaces of fantasy\" and that she searched hard to find books to read \"that did not recognize boundaries between reality and the imagination\". A second Egyptian author is \u003cstrong\u003eEzzat El-Kamhawi\u003c\/strong\u003e, with an excerpt from his award-winning novel \u003cem\u003eThe House of El-Deeb, \u003c\/em\u003eto be published in translation by AUC Press in December. Also, two Iraqi novelists – \u003cstrong\u003eDuna Ghali\u003c\/strong\u003e, settled in Denmark and writing in Arabic, in this excerpt, set in Baghdad 2006, of a family that becomes unhinged, disintegrating through being victims of war trauma, and \u003cstrong\u003ePius Alibek\u003c\/strong\u003e from Barcelona, writing in Catalan, this excerpt from his novel Nomad Roots recalling an Iraqi soldier's struggle to exist in the southern desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are proud to collaborate with the \u003cstrong\u003eBerlin International Literature Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e, which for each of its 13 years to date has opened up more and more the essential world of reading for children and young people, and through literary translation, each year gives us more and more \"Literature of the World\". In \u003cstrong\u003eBanipal 48\u003c\/strong\u003e we run a special feature on this year's guests, who include \u003cstrong\u003eJ M Coetzee \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/strong\u003e, the latter wowing his audience by saluting literary translation as \"a miracle\", as \"the most unsung art in literature\", and Arab authors, whose participation is now a regular feature of the festival. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55546282770806,"sku":"9780957442436","price":10.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34002355_8807c594-4655-4187-8867-8e8aabb63086.jpg?v=1746075587","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780957442436-banipal-48-autumnwinter-2013","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}