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Search - Literature from the Axis of Evil and Other Enemy Nations

Literature from the Axis of Evil and Other Enemy Nations
Author: Alane Mason (Editor), Dedi Felman (Editor), Samantha Schnee (Editor)

Short stories and fiction excerpts from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and other countries from whom the government would rather we didn't hear. — "Not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and writing is both dangerous and boring."—Alane Mason, founding editor, Words Without Borders — Durin... more »g the Cold War, writers behind the Iron Curtain—Solzhenitsyn, Kundera, Milosz—were translated and published in the United States, providing an invaluable window on the Soviet regime's effects on daily life and humanizing the individuals living under its conditions.

Yet U.S. Treasury Department regulations made it almost impossible for Americans to gain access to writings from "evil" countries such as Iran and Cuba until recently. Penalties for translating such works or for "enhancing their value" by editing them included stiff fines and potential jail time for the publisher. With relaxation in 2005 of the Treasury regulations (in response to pressure from the literary and scientific publishing communities that culminated in a lawsuit), it is now possible, for the first time in many years, to read in English works from these disfavored nations.

The New Press and Words Without Borders are proud to be among the first to offer American readers contemporary literature of "enemy nations." Literature from the Axis of Evil includes thirty-five works of fiction from seven countries, most of which have never before been translated into English.

Iran : The vice principal / Houshang Moradi-Kermani ; From A little less conversation / Tirdad Zolghadr ; Existence / Ahmad Shamlou

Iraq : Baghdad my beloved / Salah Al-Hamdani ; From At the borderline / Sherko Fatah ; From Scattered crumbs / Muhsin Al-Ramli ; Five crosses / Saadi Youssef ; Hameed nylon / Fadhil Al-Azzawi

North Korea : A tale of music / Kang Kwi-mi ; From Hwangjini / Hong Seok-jung ; The fifth photograph / Lim Hwa-won ; Falling persimmons / Byungu Chon

Syria : On the sacks / Hanna Mina ; From Jurists of darkness / Salim Barakat

Libya : The soldiers' plumes / Kamel al-Maghur ; The place will fit everything / Ashur Tweibi

Sudan : Coffee and water / Tarek Eltayeb ; The sweetest tea with the most beautiful woman in the world / Tarek Eltayeb

Cuba : Project for a commemorative mural (mixed media) / Anna Lidía Vega Serova ; Women of the Federation / Francisco García González ; I don't want anyone coming around to save me / Raúl Rivero

ISBN-13: 9781595580702
ISBN-10: 1595580700
Publication Date: 9/18/2006
Pages: 288
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Publisher: New Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories & Anthologies >> Anthologies
Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> Caribbean & Latin American
Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> Middle Eastern >> Arabic

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