Alligator
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- Engels
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- 9781937512897
- 29 mei 2020
- 206 pagina's
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*2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Finalist.
*2021 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2021, Longlist.
*2020 Short Story Prize, Longlist.
"The richly detailed short fictions in this debut from a Damascus-born scribe form an intricate, breathtaking mosaic of modern Muslim life." Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine
The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayats collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in Ghusl, or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in Once We Were Syrians.
Alzayats stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of Only Those Who Struggle Succeed, the New York City children on the lookout for a place to play on the heels of Etan Patzs kidnapping in Disappearance, or the dangerous women of The Daughters of Manat who struggle to assert their independence.
The title story, Alligator, is a masterpiece of historical reconstruction and intergenerational trauma, told in an epistolary format through social media posts, newspaper clippings, and testimonials, that starts with the true story of the lynching of a Syrian immigrant couple by law officers in small-town Florida. Placed in a wider context of U.S. racial violence, the extrajudicial deaths, and what happens to the couples children and their childrens children in the years after, challenges the demands of American assimilation and its limits.
Alligator and Other Stories is haunting, spellbinding, and unforgettable, while marking Dima Alzayats arrival as a tremendously gifted new talent.
"Dima Alzayat scrys the past, spinning narratives that are ahead of our time. War, politics and power come clashing together in these inventive stories that flit between styles and perspectives with dexterity. Alzayat may be the first person to realize that our history is our own black mirror." Jacob Hoefer, Labyrinth Books (Princeton, NJ)
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