{"product_id":"slender-thorns","title":"Slender Thorns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2024, our three judges -- Mansoura Ez Eldin, Sarah Enany, and Shahla Ujayli -- chose fifteen flash-fiction finalists from a pool of more than 900 stories submitted in Arabic from around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe selected short-short fictions, all 1,001 words or fewer, are from Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this collection, we bring together the fifteen finalists, with a few quotes from our conversations with the writers. The idea is both to place these short-short fictions in conversation with each other, and also to carry these diverse writers’ craft into another language: English. We have also translated the three winning stories into a new format, as audio performances in Arabic and English, available online.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe hope that readers of this bilingual collection will discover a new writer they admire, a new literary technique they can borrow for their own writing, a new idea for their practice of translation. And, most of all, that they find short stories to read and re-read, to become part of their own interior landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arablit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790925984074,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/61Vu-rvvfYL._SY466.jpg?v=1757681041","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/slender-thorns","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}