The Wedding of Zein (15 page)

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Copyright © 1968 by Tayeb Salih and Denys Johnson-Davies

Introduction copyright © 2009 by Hisham Matar

All rights reserved.

This collection was first published in Beirut, Lebanon, as ‘
Urs al-Zayn: Sab
‘
qiá¹£aá¹£
, 1962. First published in this translation in the Heinemann African Writers Series, 1969.

“The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” first appeared in this translation in
Encounter
, November 1962. “A Handful of Dates” first appeared in this translation in
Encounter
, January 1966.

Cover image: Obiora Udechukwu,
Writing in the Sky
; courtesy of the artist

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Salih, al-Tayyib.

[‘Urs al-Zayn: sab‘ qiṣaṣ. English]

The wedding of Zein / by Tayeb Salih; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-59017-342-8 (alk. paper)

I. Johnson-Davies, Denys. II. Title.

PJ7862.A564M313 2010

892.7'36 — dc22

2009036057

eISBN 978-1-59017-430-2
v1.0

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