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Lang Matl
Author Barjas, Jalal, 1970- author.

Title Snakes of fire : the love story of Ali Bin Mahmoud Al Qassad : a novel / Jalal Barjas.

Publication Info. Doha, Qatar : Katara Arabic Novel Center, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  PJ7916.A7537 A33513 2016    Available
Edition First edition.
Description 186 pages ; 21 cm.
text txt rdacontent.
unmediated n rdamedia.
volume nc rdacarrier.
Series Jāʼizat Katārā lil-Riwāyah al-ʻArabīyah. Riwāyāt ghayr al-manshūrah. English.
جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية. الروايات غير المنشورة. English.
Summary Imagine walking towards an airliner to escape for a while. Observe those who around you. In every heart, there is a story. When the plane flies in the air, stare at the houses from above. In each house, there is a story. As you go higher and higher, look at the cities as chapters of the story, then close your eyes to realize that life is a story that has not yet ended. This is what comes to Khater's mind as he wrote his novel. Then, he lost his manuscript in a sudden fire. By coincidence, he found his novel being narrated in a street under an ancient mulberry tree, told by woman who tells stories to children everyday. The woman is telling the story of a man and a young girl who long for a life, as if had not lived before, in a world that still imposes rules prohibiting everything. The story starts with a whispered word, paths are paved and then diverge, but meet in the end. The story of Khater meets the stories of Ali Bin Mahmoud Al Qassad and the storyteller, Barea where their destinies fail in life, except for love, which is the only enduring front.
Awards Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, category of unpublished novel, 2015.
Added Author Translation of: برجس، جلال، 1970- أفاعي النار ، حكاية العاشق على بن محمود القصاد. English.
Katara Arabic Novel Center, issuing body, publisher.
Jāʼizat Katārā lil-Riwāyah al-ʻArabīyah (1st : 2015). English.
جائزة كتارا للرواية العربية (1 : 2015). English.
Added Title Love story of Ali Bin Mahmoud Al Qassad.
ISBN 9789927103650 (paperback)
9927103654 (paperback)