Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: The Wool Shirt and Other Stories
This book is a collection of seven short stories ranging in topics from the psychological and sensual to the melancholic, supernatural, and spiritual.
As you embark on this most amazing journey with Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, you encounter a host of characters who appeal to your every sense of humanity, and whether you identify with them or abhor them, you remain attached to their every move and emotion and compelled to understand their motifs and desires.
These characters represent humanity at large, and although they are immersed in a Lebanese and Middle Eastern environment, the universality of their stories and the cruelty of their fates continues to haunt you long after you put the pages down and go on with your daily life thinking that you had closed the book and put their tales to rest.
Awwad is a celebrated Lebanese novelist and diplomat. He is a consummate storyteller and one of the martyrs of Lebanese literature. He devoted his life to documenting the tragic events of war and the dire consequences of certain traditional customs and erroneous beliefs. He wrote from personal experience and was tragically killed in Beirut at the Spanish Embassy along with his daughter on April 16, 1989.
As you embark on this most amazing journey with Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, you encounter a host of characters who appeal to your every sense of humanity, and whether you identify with them or abhor them, you remain attached to their every move and emotion and compelled to understand their motifs and desires.
These characters represent humanity at large, and although they are immersed in a Lebanese and Middle Eastern environment, the universality of their stories and the cruelty of their fates continues to haunt you long after you put the pages down and go on with your daily life thinking that you had closed the book and put their tales to rest.
Awwad is a celebrated Lebanese novelist and diplomat. He is a consummate storyteller and one of the martyrs of Lebanese literature. He devoted his life to documenting the tragic events of war and the dire consequences of certain traditional customs and erroneous beliefs. He wrote from personal experience and was tragically killed in Beirut at the Spanish Embassy along with his daughter on April 16, 1989.
