9 Ergebnisse.

Shortlisted for the 2011 International Prize for Arab Fiction. The Grub Hunter tells the story of a secret service agent who, after years of imprisoning dangerous novelists, decides to join them... When Farfar receives a life-changing injury, he is forced to leave his secret service days behind him. With no family to fill the void, he struggles to find meaning in his new, solitary life. That is until he is struck by an unusual idea: to writ...

Larva Avcisi kitabiyla Uluslararasi Arap Roman Ödülü kisa listesine kalan Amir Tag Elsir, insanlarin, Ebolanin gündelik yasamlarina girisiyle yasadigi celiskileri ve bunun sosyal-siyasaldüzlemde yansimalarini güclü bir ironiyle harmanlayarak bu kez okuru Ebola yillarindakiSudana götürüyor.Ebola 76da mavi yakali bir isci olan Lewis fark etmeden ülkesine ölümcül bir hastalik tasir.Bunun ailesi, arkadaslari ve meslektaslari icin ölümcül sonuclari...

Keine Beschreibung.

2011 Uluslararasi Arap Roman Ödülü kisa listesine kalan Larva Avcisi, yazarin baska dillere de cevrilmis en ünlü romani. Görev basindayken gecirdigi bir kazada bacagini kaybedip emekliye ayrilan Ajan Abdullah Harfas yazar olmaya karar verir. Bu amac onu ilginc, bir o kadar da komik bir yolculuga sürükler. Ünlü yazar A. T.nin beklenmedik bir sekilde Harfasin akil hocasi olmasiyla tuhaf durumlar ve daha da tuhaf karakterler bir bir ortaya cikar....

Abdallah Harfash, a former secret service agent, is determined to become a writer after an accident costs him his leg and his job. This quest takes him on a curious and often comic journey. Amir Tag Elsir's novel is filled with strange situations and even stranger characters such as the renowned athor A.T. who becomes an unlikely mentor to Harfash. This sharply original novel explores notions on identity and writing with wit and humour.

Amir Tag Elsir is a Sudanese writer, born in 1960. He studied medicine in Egypt and at the British Royal College of Medicine. He has published 16 books, including novels, biographies and poetry. His most important works are: The Dowry of Cries (2004), The Crawling of the Ants (2008), The Copt's Worries (2009) and The French Perfume (2009). His novel The Grub Hunter (2010) was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011 a...

[Elsir is] widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers." --"Daily News, " Egypt

A darkly satirical portrayal of the outbreak of Ebola in 1970s Congo and Sudan

Text in Arabic. A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles - in an uncanny and terrifying way - a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate? Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own c...