TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jazzār,Ḥamdī
AU  - el-Gazzar,Hamdy
AU  - Davies,Humphrey T.
TI  - Black magic
T2  - Modern Arabic literature
SN  - 9789774161049
AV  - PJ7940.A99 S5713 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Arabic fiction
KW  - Translations into English
N1  - Translation of: Siḥr aswad; "A modern Arabic novel"--Dust jacket; First published in Arabic in 2005
N2  - "As a fourteen-year-old, Nasir was entranced by his father's gift of a camera, finding in it the means both to possess beauty and to assert himself. Now a hack working for state television, Nasir meets Fatin, an independent older woman who has escaped a suffocating marriage and is secure in taking what she wants from life. An affair begins that quickly pulls Nasir into a whirlwind of incandescent erotic and emotional obsession." "In a world of superficiality, materialism, violence, and sexual hysteria seen through the unforgiving lens of his camera, Nasir's life is in limbo. A yearning for escape and a fear of loneliness propel him into a relationship in which he is at once enraptured and noncommittal. The resolution of this volatile mix lies in a violent confrontation between repulsion and desire."--BOOK JACKET
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