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Distant Train: A Novel (Middle East Literature In Translation),New
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While the fading autumn sun sped toward the horizon, the young boys headed homethey were not used to trying to see at night without the moons glow. So begins this unconventional, hauntingly mythic novel. In the tradition of magicalrealism, author Abdel Meguid crafts a tale steeped in symbolism. Writing in a shimmering lyrical style he brings alive the dreams, customs, and everyday concerns of people living in historic obscurity on the fringe of the glitzy petrodollar kingdoms of the Middle East. The tale begins on a worksite in Egypts western desert. Here, in the middle of nowhere, railway men and locals wait in hope for the annual return of a distant train. When last it came this vehicle brought with it foreigners, soldiersand economic opportunity; then it stopped. Each of Meguids characters is allegorical in nature. Each part of the novel is framed by memory and the way remembrance takes shape and affects the characters. The storys main characters are time and place. Yet its dramatic thrust is the ways in which place gives rise to history through the passage of time and the rise and fall of settlement. Distant Train reaffirms Meguids status as a new, imaginative, and distinct voice in the field of narrative literature and the timehonored arena of storytelling.
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