The Iron Grasshopper: A Childhood Autobiography; The Incomplete Biography of a Child Who Saw Nothing but a Fugitive Land, So He Shouted: These Are My Traps, O Sandgrouse!
Author:   Salim Barakat ,  Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy
Publisher:   Seagull Books London Ltd
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9781803094939


Pages:   96
Publication Date:   29 December 2025
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The Iron Grasshopper: A Childhood Autobiography; The Incomplete Biography of a Child Who Saw Nothing but a Fugitive Land, So He Shouted: These Are My Traps, O Sandgrouse!


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Author:   Salim Barakat ,  Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy
Publisher:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781803094939


ISBN 10:   1803094931
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   29 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1.Bleeding 2.¡How Far, O Child! 3.First Crack: Geometric Violence 4.Second Crack: On the Collision of Directions 5.Third Crack: On Fire and Hunting 6.Fourth Crack: On the Collapse of Briva 7.Fifth Crack: On Snow and Ruins 8.Epilogue: To be followed by what follows nothing!

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Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian writer, considered to be one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in the Arabic language. He was brought up in Qamishli in northern Syria and spent most of his youth there. After living in Beirut and Cyprus, he moved to Sweden in 1999, where he now resides. A prolific writer, Barakat has published dozens of novels and collections of poetry. He is distinguished from his contemporaries for the innovative use of style and theme within his writing. Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy is a writer from Egypt and a literary translator between Arabic and English. He is pursuing his PhD degree in comparative studies in literature and culture at the University of Southern California.

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