Articles tagged "Wedding"

Literature as Social Experiment (Dispatches)

By Arnon Grunberg | December 8, 2009

A literary magazine in Romania published my nonfiction story about a group of American men who traveled to Ukraine in the hopes of finding a bride, or sex, or a combination of both. The tour was organized…...

Mrs. Saniya’s Holiday (Mag: Articles)

By Na’am al-Baz | January 1, 2006

NOTE: In this portrait of a seamstress (a khiyaata) and her labors of love over the sewing machine, the holiday referred to in the title is the èEid al-Fitr, the three-day feast marking the end…...

Translated from Arabic by Alexa Firat

The Veiler of All Deeds (Mag: Articles)

By Hamdi Abu Golayyel | January 1, 2006

NOTE: Born in 1968, Hamdy Abu Golayyel is of Bedouin origin and lives in Cairo. In keeping with a growing trend in Egyptian fiction, Thieves in Retirement-the novel from which this excerpt is taken-is…...

Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth

The Man Who Sold His Shadow (Mag: Articles)

By Kim Young-ha | October 21, 2005

Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I was born, and before my grandmother, and her grandmother…...

Translated from Korean by Dafna Zur

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