Return to Dar Al-Basha

Return to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh...
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Author: Hassan Nasr
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Return to Dar Al-Basha by Nasr, Hassan

Return to Dar Al-Basha

$51.98

Return to Dar Al-Basha

$51.98
Author: Hassan Nasr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Return to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. After being taken from his mother and raised in his father's home where he was physically abused and emotionally marginalized, Murtada spends a life of anxiety wandering the world. His return is prompted by a mysterious visit from one of his father's Sufi friends as he roams the desert in Mauritania. Murtada retraces his steps through the medina to his family's house in anticipation of a possible reunion with his troubled father, vividly reliving sights, smells, and sounds from his childhood and evoking his childhood initiation into Islamic mysticism as he experiences a personal journey of the spirit across space and time.

Nasr succeeds in conjuring up a Tunisian boyhood not unlike his own and brings to life in a poetic, sensual narrative the spaces, light, colors, and life of Tunis some six decades ago. Murtada searches the streets of Tunis and his memories for the decisive mistake he feels he must have made-that has left him a perpetual wanderer until he undergoes a cathartic nightmare sequence that leaves him shaken. Only then is he finally able to come to peace with his past and with himself. In William M. Hutchins' lucid translation, the novel serves as an evocation and tribute to the historic city of Tunis the novel and meditates about the position of the past in a rapidly modernizing society.

Author: Hassan Nasr
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 11/07/2006
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.32w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780815608783

About the Author

Hassan Nasr was born in Tunis in 1937. He has published a number of novels and short stories. This novel was first published in 1994.

William Hutchins is the recipient of a 2005-2006 National Endowment of the Arts grant for literary translation and the principle translator of The Cairo Trilogy by the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mafouz.

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