Description
After evening prayer, a restless man slips into the village lanes and finds that even the smallest comforts—tea, conversation, the ability to refuse—can become traps. In the title story, his sleepless anger turns inward as he wrestles with humiliation, obligation, and the everyday pressures that shape how people speak, judge, and endure. Across this collection, Yusuf Idris renders village life with sharp observation and dark humor, illuminating the tensions between faith and desire, power and vulnerability, and the quiet costs of survival. With Idris’s distinctive, realist style—grounded in vivid detail and moral complexity—these stories expose how frustration and longing simmer beneath ordinary routines, until they demand to be faced.
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paperback
Three Continents Press
Published Jan 1, 1989
196 pages
ISBN: 0894106651
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First Published
1989
Language
eng
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