Houses Behind the Trees

Set in a small village in the Egyptian Delta, El-Bisatie's finely tuned novella illustrates the social and sexual tensions in a community in which nothing is secret and where people's pasts haunt their present.

Author: Mohamed El-Bisatie
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 07/01/1998
Pages: 109
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.08w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780292720954

About the Author
El-Bisatie, Mohamed: - Mohamed El-Bisatie’s first collection of short stories was published in Arabic in 1968. Since then, he has written five more volumes of short stories and five novellas. Born and raised in the Nile Delta, he now lives in Cairo. He is the author of A Last Glass of Tea, a collection of short stories published in 1994.