{"product_id":"sour-grapes-paperback-softback-9780815611547","title":"Sour Grapes (Paperback \/ softback) 9780815611547","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSour Grapes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZakaria Tamer (Author), Alessandro Columbu (Translated by), Mireia Costa Capallera (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780815611547\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWell crafted, richly imagined and full of vitality. Tamer’s colourful  cast includes convicts, rogues, officials, singers and squabbling  lovers - Malcolm Forbes (The National) This collection shows Tamer at the height of his craft. His short stories in \u003ci\u003eSour Grapes\u003c\/i\u003e are wry, iconoclastic, and always arresting. (Nader Uthman, Harvard University, translator of Traces: A Memoir) Tamer offers few of the usual lazy satisfactions of  neighborhood\/small-town-fiction but still offers a well-formed world  (and world-view) that is consistently (if often also disturbingly)  compelling.A solid collection, in comfortably bite-sized pieces. - M.A. Orthofer (The Complete Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, \u003ci\u003eSour Grapes\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tamer captures their everyday lives, weaving the attendant cruelties and ironies of living under an oppressive regime with the residents’ irreverence and small acts of defiance. Inspired by the heroines of Arab mythology, the women of al-Qaweyq navigate the patriarchal community with brash confidence and dark humor while the younger generation of children inherit a bitter cynicism from their fathers. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the collection’s title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the harvest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsidered a master of the short story, Zakaria Tamer is one of the Arab world’s most prominent and widely read writers. Columbu and Capallera’s fluid translation gives English readers access to Tamer’s original and provocative voice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734770020632,"sku":"9780815611547","price":14.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sour-grapes-paperback-softback-9780815611547","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}