The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt (The Arab List)

"Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party and left political life--and published shortly after she committed suicide--the book offers a poignant look at, and reckoning with, the Marxism of her generation and the role of militant intellectuals in the tragic failure of both the national liberation project and the communist project in Egypt. The powerful critique in The Stillborn speaks not only to and about Salih's own generation of left activists but also to broader, still salient dilemmas of revolutionary politics throughout the developing world in the postcolonial era"--Jacket Two Men Talk In Tokyo. One, A Belgian, Is A Diplomat. The Other, Dutch, Is A Photographer. What, They Wonder, Is The Real Face Of Japan? How Can They Get Beyond The European Idea Of The Nation And Its People--with Its Exoticism--and See Japan As It Truly Is? The Belgian Has An Idea: He Helps The Photographer Find A Model To Shoot In Front Of Mount Fuji As The Typical Japanese. The Plan Works Better Than Either Had Imagined--in Fact, It Works Too Well: The Photographer Falls In Love, Neglects His Friend And His Career, And, Feeling Out Of Place And Disillusioned In Holland, Returns To Japan As Often As Possible Over The Next Five Years. A Reunion Is Planned: The Three Will Meet Again At Mount Fuji. Time, It Seems, Has Stood Still . . . Except The Woman Has A Secret, And Plans Of Her Own. Cees Nooteboom ; Translated By Adrienne Dixon. Translation Of: Mokusei! : Een Liefdesverhaal. First Published In English Translation By Bridges Books, Amsterdam, 1985--title Page Verso.