Hunger
by Mohamed El-Bisatie
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As with his earlier works, Mohamed El-Bisatie's novel is set in the Egyptian countryside, about which he writes with such understanding. Episodic in form, it deals with a family-Zaghloul the layabout father, Sakeena the long-suffering wife, and two young boys. The central theme of the book is hunger: the hunger of not knowing where one's next meal is coming from, and the universal hunger for sex and love. Sakeena's life revolves round trying to provide her family with the necessary daily show more loaves of bread that will stave off starvation. Labor-shy Zaghloul works on and off at one of the village's show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- جوع
- Original publication date
- 2007
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 892.7 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)
- LCC
- PJ7816 .I76 .J813 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Arabic Arabic literature Individual authors or works
- BISAC
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- Languages
- Arabic, English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
