Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Hostage
The Hostage | Zayd Mu??? Damm?j
1 post | 1 read | 2 to read
A REISSUED CLASSIC BY YEMEN'S ACCLAIMED LITERARY VOICE
LibraryThing
blurb
Dilara
The Hostage | Zayd Mu??? Damm?j
post image

Another 20th-century classic that's not well known in the West: The hostage by Yemeni author Zayd Muti'Dammaj. It's about a boy kept as a hostage and servant by a family loyal to Yemen's ruler to ensure that the boy's family does not rise up against them. I was grateful for the introduction explaining the political symbolism of the plot and characters. Without it, it would have been a creepy love story between a teenage boy and an older woman.

Dilara Photo of Al-Qahira Castle in Taiz, the town in #Yemen where the author was schooled from Wikipedia (edited) 1y
28 likes3 stack adds1 comment